| Frayn Plays: 2: Balmoral; Benefactors; Wild Honey Contributor(s): Frayn, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 041366080X ISBN-13: 9780413660800 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: Benefactors: "Frayn's most complex and interesting play."-Sunday Times Balmoral: "A sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement."-New Statesman Wild Honey, a reworking of Chekhov's first play: "A brilliant piece of theatre bearing the stigmata of genius."-Guardian "Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh."-Guardian |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.65 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frayn, Michael: - Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. |