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  • A Landing on the Sun by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    A Landing on the Sun

    From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, an unconditional triumph (The Washington Post Book World) For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there have been rumors. So Brian Jessel, a...
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  • A Very Private Life (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    A Very Private Life (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    'Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber . . .' Uncumber lives in the distant future, in a world sharply divided between 'Insiders' and 'Outsiders'. The Insiders lead a privileged existence: never having to leave their homes, they enjoy...
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  • Afterlife by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Afterlife

    Characters: 6 male, 2 female, plus extras (w/doubling)Multiple SetsA man who has everything. Money, friends, a beautiful home. And then - pfft It's all vanished. Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between...
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  • Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

    A unique memoir of a lifetime'srelationships - from one of Britain's most beloved literary companions.It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a briefword, looking back on life from his ninetieth...
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  • Audience by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Audience

    This amusing satire about audiences by the author of Noises Off, Copenhagen and other acclaimed plays takes place in the stalls (orchestra) of a West End theatre. The cast includes an usherette, audience members and a playwright in agony over crinkling candy wrappers, talking...
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  • Benefactors by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Benefactors

    This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.2 women, 2 menAuthor:...
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  • Copenhagen by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Copenhagen

    Drama Characters: 2 male, 1 female Interior Set Winner of 3 Tony Awards, including Best Play - 2000 In 1941 German physicist Werner Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Together they had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but...
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  • Copenhagen by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Copenhagen

    'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent 'Frayn has seized on a ral-life historical and...
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  • Copenhagen by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Copenhagen

    TONY AWARD WINNER - An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. "Endlessly fascinating.... The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year.... An electrifying work of art." --Ben Brantley, The New...
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  • Democracy: A Play by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Democracy: A Play

    A brilliant exploration of character and conscience from the author of COPENHAGEN, set amid the tensions of 1960s Berlin In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the known events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions...
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  • Donkeys' Years by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Donkeys' Years

    Michael Frayn's "gorgeous farce" about a university reunion.Author: Michael FraynISBN-10: 0573110972ISBN-13: 9780573110979Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1977Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d
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  • Frayn Plays: 1: Alphabetical Order; Donkeys' Years; Clouds; Make and Break; Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Frayn Plays: 1: Alphabetical Order; Donkeys' Years; Clouds; Make and Break; Noises Off

    "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Alphabetical Order: "A comic essay about two types of woman... a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become stereotypes" (Daily...
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  • Frayn Plays: 2: Balmoral; Benefactors; Wild Honey by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Frayn Plays: 2: Balmoral; Benefactors; Wild Honey

    "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic work circumscribes the disillusionment of an era" (New York Times); Balmoral dares to imagine what Britain would be like...
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  • Frayn Plays: 4: Copenhagen; Democracy; Afterlife by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Frayn Plays: 4: Copenhagen; Democracy; Afterlife

    Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: Copenhagen, Democracy and Afterlife. The volume features the definitive version of each play together with an introduction...
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  • Headlong by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Headlong

    An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught...
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  • Here by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Here

    Two people move into an empty room and begin to construct a life together in this work by the author of Noises Off, Copenhagen, Benefactors and numerous other well known plays. Should the bed go here and the table go there? Or the bed...
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  • Listen to This by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Listen to This

    This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions.Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture Belt (2m, 1f)...
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  • Make and Break - A Play by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Make and Break - A Play

    John Garrard is a successful manufacturer who is driven by a compulsion to use and consume the world and the people around him. He is briefly intensely curious about everything he comes across, particularly other people's worlds: their religious beliefs, their sexual and artistic...
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  • Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments

    Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times). Thirty snatches of people talking. To each other, to the world at large, to themselves, to...
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  • Michael Frayn Plays: 3: Here, Now You Know, La Belle Vivette by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Michael Frayn Plays: 3: Here, Now You Know, La Belle Vivette

    The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life...A touching, brilliant construction. It's both deeply thought and deeply felt' (Sunday Times); Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous new...
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  • My Father's Fortune by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    My Father's Fortune

    Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize Award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary,...
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  • Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off

    If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on - getting off...that's farce. That's the theatre. That's life. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce Noises Off, enjoyed by millions...
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  • Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off

    "As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits..the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality" Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are...
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  • Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off

    Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the characters make their exits from Nothing On...
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  • Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off

    Farce / 5m, 4f / 2 Int. Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop...
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  • Noises Off - A Play by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off - A Play

    Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing's On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically...
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  • Noises Off by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Noises Off: A Play in Three Acts

    From the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's "spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy" (The New York Times).Noises Off is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final...
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  • Now You Know (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Now You Know (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    Terry, the charismatic director of a British campaign for open government, has a direct approach to official secrets and women alike. The only person who can resist his brash frankness is Hilary, a serious and dedicated young civil servant in the Home Office, who...
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  • Skios by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Skios

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred,...
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  • Spies by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Spies

    The National Bestseller The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet,...
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  • Sweet Dreams (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Sweet Dreams (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    'A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green...' Heaven, the Book of Revelation tells us, is a city of pure gold, 1,500 miles high, and decorated in sapphire, amethyst, and emerald. According to the Koran, it...
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  • The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue

    One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages, apparently found concealed...
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  • The Crimson Hotel and Audience by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Crimson Hotel and Audience

    In this absurdist comedy two lovers - a playwright and his leadactress - escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains ofRoom 322 materialise around them, a fumbling of fastenings ensues. Butthey soon...
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  • The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

    Humankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the vastness of the universe. But what would that universe look like if we were not here to say something about it? In this brilliant, insightful work of philosophy, beloved novelist and playwright Michael...
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  • The Russian Interpreter (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Russian Interpreter (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    'Manning's old friend Proctor-Gould was in Moscow and anxious to get in touch with him. Or so Manning was informed. He looked forward to the meeting. He had few friends in Moscow, none of them old friends, and no friends at all, old or...
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  • The Tin Men (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Tin Men (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    The William Morris Institute of Automation Research is working hard to simplify our lives by programming computers to carry out life's routine tasks. Whether it's resolving ethical dilemmas, writing pornographic novels, saying prayers, or watching sports, these automation experts are developing machines to handle...
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  • The Trick of It by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Trick of It

    He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally--he has devoted his life...
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  • The Two of Us by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    The Two of Us

    A collection of short plays Black and SilverCharacters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set In this short, affecting and laughable scene parents are awakened in the middle of the night by the baby. They stumble about trying to pacify the infant. At one point...
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  • Towards the End of the Morning (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Frayn, Michael
    Michael Frayn

    Towards the End of the Morning (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    Set in the waning years of London's Fleet Street, this is the story of John Dyson and his colleagues in the crossword and nature-notes section of an obscure London newspaper. The ambitious young Dyson dreams wistfully of trading his dead-end job for the fame...
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