Frayn Plays: 2: Balmoral; Benefactors; Wild Honey

by Michael Frayn

Overview

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)



Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic work circumscribes the disillusionment of an era" (New York Times); Balmoral dares to imagine what Britain would be like if it had gone through the Russian revolution in 1917; "a sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement" (New Statesman); Wild Honey is a reworking of Checkov's first play (also known as Platonov) and is shot through with farce, feminism and eroticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413660800
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/27/2008
Series:	Contemporary Dramatists
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a jourbanalist 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.

Table of Contents

Balmoral; Benefactors; Wild Honey