File On Frayn
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2014
96 pages
978-1-4081-5250-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian)
Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included Copenhagen, Noises Off, Benefactors and Donkeys' Years.
Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of the writers' own comments on their work.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-5250-8 (9781408152508)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- General Editor's Introduction
- 1: A Brief Chronology
- 2: The Plays
- A: Stage Plays
- The Two of Us
- The Sandboy
- Alphabetical Order
- Donkeys' Years
- Clouds
- Balmoral
- Make and Break
- Noises Off
- Benefactors
- Look Look
- Here
- B: Translations and Adaptations
- C: Television Plays
- Jamie on a Flying Visit
- Birthday
- Beyond a Joke
- Making Faces
- First and Last
- D: Film
- Clockwise
- 3: Non-Dramatic Writing
- A: Novels
- The Tin Men
- The Russian Interpreter
- Towards the End of the Morning
- A Very Private Life
- Sweet Dreams
- The Trick of It
- A Landing on the Sun
- Now You Know
- B: Humour
- C: Philosophy
- D: Journalism
- 4: The Writer on His Work
- 5: A Select Bibliography
