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Michael Frayn has written plays, novels, and screenplays, in additioin to being a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and translator of Chekhov. His thirteen plays include Copenhagen, which was awarded the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards and, in the United Kingdom, the Olivier and Evening Standard awards. His novel Headlong was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Spies, was published in 2002. Born in London in 1933 and educated at Cambridge, Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin; they live in London.

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Noises Off," the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of "Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, "Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during "Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from "Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage. In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown.

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  • Title Noises Off: A Play in Three Acts
  • Author Michael Frayn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books
  • Date 2002-08-27
  • ISBN 9781400031603 / 1400031605
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.2 x 0.47 in (20.37 x 13.21 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Actors, Comedies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002071143
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.914

Media reviews

“Spectacularly funny . . . a peerless backstage comedy.” –Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“First-rate. . . . Clever and intricately crafted. . . . Sublime.” –The Boston Globe

“Ingenious. . . . Madcap.” –The Wall Street Journal

“A triumph. . . . An essential hysterical fix. . . . Masterly.” –The New York Observer

“[A] frisky, freewheeling sex comedy about actors in a frisky, freewheeling sex comedy.” –USA Today

“A comic masterpiece.” –Daily Telegraph

“Blissful fun.” –The New Yorker

Citations

  • Library Journal, 08/01/2002, Page 94

About the author

Michael Frayn has written plays, novels, and screenplays, in additioin to being a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and translator of Chekhov. His thirteen plays include Copenhagen, which was awarded the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards and, in the United Kingdom, the Olivier and Evening Standard awards. His novel Headlong was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Spies, was published in 2002. Born in London in 1933 and educated at Cambridge, Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin; they live in London.
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