Book review: Skios by Michale frayn - scotsman.com
25 May 2012, 5:44 pm
Now, after a batch of heavyweight productions, he has given the farceur of Noises Off and Headlong a fresh outing. frayn’s helter-skelter new story starts at the airport of the Greek island of Skios with two strangers who have just disembarked from the ...

Spies by Michael frayn - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 4:40 pm
What is a plot? For the reader, it is the discovery of concealed connections between events in a narrative. Michael frayn's Spies is a novel with a carefully engineered plot, and a story whose two main characters are determined to uncover the ...

Nuclear debate and a murky moment in time - New Zealand Herald
25 May 2012, 12:58 pm
The idea that we deviate from the path we are on - because of choice, chance or some sort of determinism - is one that British master dramatist and author Michael frayn has long explored. It threads through frayn's 1998 play Copenhagen, which, following an ...

Alison Steadman lands Radio4 comedy role - Daily Telegraph
25 May 2012, 9:30 am
Steadman, who has recently been starring on stage in Michael frayn's Here at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames, is known to TV viewers for her role as Pam in BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey.

Northern Lights Theatre Company presents COPENHAGEN - Scoop
25 May 2012, 1:59 am
Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Simon Kane and Bruce Phillips star in a dramatic revival of Michael frayn’s award-winning play COPENHAGEN directed by British newcomer Alex Bonham. Seventy years ago the head of the German Atomic Research programme, Werner ...

Alley Theatre announces cast and creative team for "Noises Off" - Your Houston News
21 May 2012, 10:25 am
Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for the Alley Theatre's production of the Michael frayn's delightful, uproarious romp Noises Off. New York Magazine says Noises Off is "As side-splitting a farce as I have ever seen.

Check in to Brockley Jack Studio Theatre for Chekhov - News Shopper
21 May 2012, 2:33 am
A COLLECTION of comic vaudeville sketches by Anton Chekhov will be performed in Honor Oak. Michael frayn has translated and adapted the literary giant’s sketches - which were written for satirical magazines and revues – and are full of energy ...

Farce majeure - Financial Times
18 May 2012, 3:22 pm
In Michael frayn’s novels, comedy and philosophy tend to become intertwined. A moment of rich humour will often be followed by a pang of existential disquiet, and nothing seems more likely to collapse into hilarious chaos than the schemes of the high-minded.

James Black, Josie de Guzman, Kimberly King Set for Alley Theatre's Noises Off - TheaterMania.com
17 May 2012, 2:05 pm
Alley Theatre has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Michael frayn's Noises Off, to be presented May 25-June 24 on the Hubbard Stage. Gregory Boyd will direct. Noises Off is a farce within a farce that takes the clichés of the genre and ...

Fat from meal hits waistlines in just three hours, study reveals - FOX News
13 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Karpe and his fellow researcher, Oxford colleague Keith frayn, found that fatty tissue stored around the waist was only short-term, and could be used for energy during exercise. However, if the individual continued to eat excessively ...