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Sep 22, 2023 · That seems to me the basic situation of any living creature, but certainly of human beings, who are trying make sense of what they are seeing. So maybe what I’m doing is just an exaggeration, a ...
Oct 2, 2020 · Michael Frayn wrote the novel ‘Spies’ to present a partly-autobiographical novel in 2002. Frayn grew up in Ewell, Surrey, during World War 2. He had a precious and happy early childhood until his mother died when Frayn was 12 years old. Frayn got to change form an exclusive private school to a public school due to financial issues.
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When I was young, a friend of mine had a puppet theatre and made wonderful, beautiful puppets. I think I wrote some material for my puppets, but I’ve absolutely no recollection of what it was. When I worked for the Guardian, I went to see West Side Story at Manchester Opera House. It must have been the original British production before it went int...
I saw two documentaries about Russia recently that I was struck by – Navalny, about the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Tango with Putin, about a woman who ran an independent TV station that was critical of Putin. I thought both were extraordinary. My youngest daughter Jenny produced a drama called Helpabout the effect of Covid on old people’...
It seems much harder to get a straight play on in the West End these days and that is sad. One of the great things about theatre in the UK is the symbiosis between the subsidised and commercial sectors, but I’d like to see commercial producers take more risks on plays.
Michael Frayn’s Spies won the 2002 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the United Kingdom's only literary award for comic literature, and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize. A Common Theme. Despite the variety in the kind of work that Frayn produces, he consistently explores a common theme.
Faced with that testimony to the seriousness of his judgment we are scarcely in a position to dissent. And this in fact is the final irony of the play—that in the end the Seagull herself escapes ...
Jack Harries [7] Michael Frayn, FRSL (/ freɪn /; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off [8] and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him ...
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More discerning viewers, however, began to note that Frayn was a serious writer employing comedy to explore philosophical themes: the relationship of language and perception, of order and misrule ...
