MICHAEL FRAYN   (1933 - )


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Plays by Michael Frayn

MICHAEL FRAYN
Afterlife
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt, rejoices in his wealth and all the pleasures that money can buy. Then in 1938 Hitler declares his own day of reckoning and sends Death into Austria - whereupon Reinhardt, a Jew, is left as naked and vulnerable as Everyman himself. Afterlife is the story of how Reinhardt achieves his great ambition; though in a way he can scarcely have foreseen.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Alarms And Excursions
1st Produced:
Gielgud, London
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
eight short playlets
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Parts:
Male
16
Female
14
Parts Other:
can be 2m 2f
Notes: Alarms; Doubles; Leavings; Look Away Now; Heart to Heart; Glasnost; Toasters; Immobiles
Synopsis: Alarms. Two couples embark on a dinner party which is doomed to failure as labour-saving devices and furniture become hostile. Doubles. Two couples in adjacent hotel rooms have similar problems to those in Alarms. Leavings. The dinner-party is revisited. Look Away Now. Passengers ignore their airliner's safety lecture. Heart to Heart. Deals with the impossibility of communication at a noisy drinks party. Glassnost. Presents us with a political speech sabotaged by a harassed autocue operator. Toasters. Shows the problems of trying to eat and work standing up at a function. Immobiles. This is acted out entirely over the phone, as a couple try to decide where they should be meeting their German guest.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Alphabetical Order
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1976
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The library office of a provincial newspaper is a scene of utter confusion - the cluttered chaos of the room matching the lives of its staff. It is also a scene of warmth and light-heartedness. In comes Leslie, a new young assistant with a passion for organisation who transforms the office and the lives of its inhabitants into something orderly and neat - and also arid and colourless. An announcement that the paper is to close leads to a struggle between chaos and order.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Audience
1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, London
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London [Oberon, London 2007]
1978
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Audience was first performed in Colin Blakely, a Celebration at the Lyric on 4th October 1987. With a second act added it was presented under the title Look Look at the Aldwych on 17th April 1990
Synopsis: the theory that the audience may be more interesting than what its watching
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Balmoral
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
1987
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Genre:
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Farce
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Liberty Hall
Synopsis: It is 1937. Twenty years earlier the Revolution took place in Britain instead of Russia and the Soviet Republic of Great Britain is at the height of the purges. The royal residence of Balmoral is now a State Writer's Home with Godfrey Winn, Warwick Deeping, Enid Blyton and Hugh Walpole among its current inmates.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Bear, The
1st Produced:
Unproduced
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Company:
-
1st Published:
1988
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: No I'm not interested in the beginning of a love affair and I'm not interested in the en, haven't you noticed they are the same. Let's go back to the middle
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Benefactors
1st Produced:
Vaudeville Theatre, London
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
1984
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: won the Standard, Plays and Players and Laurence Olivier awards for the Best Play of 1984. Spanning fifteen years this complex, well-structured play traces the story of the destruction of David's architectural dream by the embittered Colin and Colin's marriage to the inept Sheila, contrasting those who help and those who are helped; those who create and those who destroy. '. . . a beautifully crafted play, economically written.' Time Out
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Birthday
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
TV Play
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Modern
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Black And Silver
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Fontana, London
1970
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in "The Two Of Us"
Synopsis: New baby interferes with romance when returning to honeymoon tryst
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Cherry Orchard, The
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1978
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Chinamen
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Fontana, London
1970
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in "The Two Of Us"
Synopsis: Personal problems revealed at dinner party
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Clockwise
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
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1st Published:
1986
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Genre:
Screenplay
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Clouds
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1977
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: two journalist on a fact finding mission to Cuba with the title as a metaphor for the characters themselves
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Copenhagen
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
1999
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Genre:
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Historical
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: two physicists who together had revolutionised atomic science in the 1920's are now on opposite sides in WW2
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Crimson Hotel, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
absurdist comrdy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Absudia
Synopsis: In this absurdist comedy two lovers escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel ,conjured from a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of Room 322 materialise around the playwright and his lead actress,a fumbling of fastenings ensues. But they're not the only couple intent on escaping from reality. .
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Democracy
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Historical Drama
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Parts:
Male
10
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Donkey's Years
1st Produced:
Globe Th, London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
1977
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Twenty years after graduation, six former students return to their university college for a reunion dinner. Whilst their lives may have had varying degrees of success, all are connected by a common past. Once locked in college for the night, the graduates begin to relive their youth, and old friendships, feuds  and the much-desired but absurdly proper Master's wife  come tumbling back into the present . . .
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Evils Of Tobacco, The
1st Produced:
Unproduced
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Company:
-
1st Published:
1988
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: very short talk by husband on wife's views of tobacco
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Exchange
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
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1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Yuri Trifonov; Guildhall 1986 with student actors
Synopsis: attempt to exchange a cramped flat in Moscow highlights the tensions between two families and their clash of opposing values
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MICHAEL FRAYN
First & Last
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
TV Play
Screen Play
Parts:
Male
27
Female
20
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: This is a screenplay about a recently retired insurance manager who is ill. He decides to combat his illness by walking from Land''s End to John O''Groats and in doing so becomes a healthier and more aware human being. It is a gentle comedy with serious overtones by the author of 'Clockwise'
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Fruits Of Enlightenment, The
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1979
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Original Playwright - Leo Tolstoy
Synopsis: a changed translation from the norm
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Headlong
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
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1st Published:
1999
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Here
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
1993
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a steady drip of monosyllabic questions and fudged answers create a hell of indecision as the duelling protagonist endlessly circle
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Jamie On A Flying Visit
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
13
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Modern
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Liberty Hall
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
1987
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Genre:
-
Farce
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: revised version of Balmoral
Synopsis: It is 1937. Twenty years earlier the Revolution took place in Britain instead of Russia and the Soviet Republic of Great Britain is at the height of the purges. The royal residence of Balmoral is now a State Writer's Home with Godfrey Winn, Warwick Deeping, Enid Blyton and Hugh Walpole among its current inmates.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Listen To This
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
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1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
Sketches and Monologues
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: Listen To This; Confession; At The Sign Of The Rupture Belt; A Little Peace And Quiet; Blots; Through The Wilderness; Never Mind The Weather; Black And Silver; The New Quixote; Mr Foot; Chinamen;
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Look Look
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Spettori (Rome 1989)
Synopsis: the theory that the audience may be more interesting than what its watching
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Make And Break
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1980
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a compulsive businessman whose self absorption is complete even during the climatic events of a trade fair in Germany
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Mr Foot
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Fontana, London
1970
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in The Two Of Us
Synopsis: Discussion by couple on how to handle a job investigator
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MICHAEL FRAYN
New Quixote, The
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Fontana, London
1970
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: in "The Two Of Us"
Synopsis: Older professional woman eventually accepts young man's presence.
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Noises Off
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A farce about a farce
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MICHAEL FRAYN
Now You Know
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-