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ISBN-13: 978-1941147504
List Price: $15.00 U.S.
Pages: 176

Published: 2015
Matchbox Theatre (2015)
Michael Frayn

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Book Description

Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, ‘the funniest farce ever written’ (New York Times).

Thirty snatches of people talking. To each other, to the world at large, to themselves, to no one. Heard, unheard. Overheard, half-heard. On telephones, into microphones. In a crypt, an airport, an orchestra pit.

These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest theatre in the world: the theatre of your own imagination. The scripts are provided. Everything else – casting, set design, ice cream sales – is up to you . . .

REVIEWS

‘[V]ery funny . . . It’s like watching the most abstract, highbrow TV sketch show you can imagine . . . clever, light-spirited, linguistically perverse readers will fall in love with it and cherish it forever.’ – The Spectator

‘[A] delight, and often extremely funny . . . More fun and insights are packed into these playlets than can be found in most dramas 10 times their length.’ – Sunday Times (London)

'[O]ne of our finest writers . . . one of the few authors to have had huge success with both theatrical and novelistic fictions has combined the best of both in [this] lovely book.' -- Guardian

'[A] delectably droll collection of theatrical diversions . . . For lovers of classic farce, Monty Python and the wildly diverse British sense of humor.' – Kirkus Reviews


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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. One of the few English writers to achieve success as both novelist and playwright, his three most recent novels, Headlong, Spies, and Skios, were all nominated for the Booker Prize, while Noises Off (first produced in New York in 1983, revived in 2001, and due to be revived again in 2015) was recently voted Britain’s second favourite play, and Copenhagen won the Tony Award for Best Play. His first five novels, all long recognized as classics in Great Britain, are also published by Valancourt Books.





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