Description
A new edition of Michael Frayn's genre-defining backstage farce that follows a theatre company as they struggle to rehearse and perform on a national tour.
About the Author
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. He has written seventeen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, and Democracy, translated Chekhov's last four plays, and adapted his first as Wild Honey. His screenplays include Clockwise, starring John Cleese, and among his eleven novels are The Tin Men, Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies, and Skios. Collections of articles include Collected Columns, Stage Directions, and Travels with a Typewriter. He has also published two philosophical works, Constructions and The Human Touch, and a memoir, My Father's Fortune. His most recent publications are three collections of short entertainments, Matchbox Theatre, Pocket Playhouse, and Magic Mobile. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
Reviews
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 spot on parody ... achieves an almost mathematical elegance as Frayn calculates all the many and varied ways in which it can all go wrong. Noises Off is cunningly structured. * Telegraph *
A classic farce and a fiendishly ingenious homage to the form ... raucously delightful * New York Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350184855
Author Michael Frayn
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 162g