Frayn

Michael Frayn is back on Broadway with a new play, directed by Michael Blakemore.

November 2004 2004

Newspaper folk are prodigiously rewarding targets for satire, as novelists from Evelyn Waugh (Scoop) to Michael Frayn (Towards the End of the Morning) and Andrew Martin (Bilton) have discovered, and it helps, as countless columns attest, that so many of them seem delightedly in thrall to their caricatured selves.

The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review 2011

Michael Frayn wrote a masterly essay on the Festival of Britain in 1963, when it was only as distant as the Millennium Dome is to us now.

My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011

In 1963, Frayn thought that he was deep inside the carnivorous age.

My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011

In 1963, Frayn thought that he was deep inside the carnivorous age.

My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011

This is an early, slight Frayn play, but it has seeds of the later, frenetic Noises Off. The problem is, despite good performances all round, we aren't overly engaged with the characters or quite sure the point Frayn is trying to make.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Alphabetical Order, The Most Ridiculous Thing You Ever Hoid Fern Siegel 2010

And wouldn't the Bennett, Stoppard or Frayn be an equally good title for a theatre?

Dorfman or Cottesloe? Does it matter what a theatre is called? Michael Billington 2010

"My Father's Fortune" by the playwright Michael Frayn is a subtle and enchanting account of his boyhood in the South London suburbs.

Twelve Months of Reading 2011

This is an early, slight Frayn play, but it has seeds of the later, frenetic Noises Off. The problem is, despite good performances all round, we aren't overly engaged with the characters or quite sure the point Frayn is trying to make.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Alphabetical Order, The Most Ridiculous Thing You Ever Hoid Fern Siegel 2010

Michael Frayn wrote a masterly essay on the Festival of Britain in 1963, when it was only as distant as the Millennium Dome is to us now.

My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011