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Noises Off - by Michael Frayn (Paperback)

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  • From the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's "spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy" (The New York Times).
  • About the Author: Michael Frayn has written plays, novels, and screenplays, in additioin to being a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and translator of Chekhov.
  • 176 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, Drama

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From the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's "spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy" (The New York Times).

Noises Off 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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"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




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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.02 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .47 Inches (D)
Weight: .41 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Drama
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Frayn
Language: English
Street Date: August 27, 2002
TCIN: 90811791
UPC: 9781400031603
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-7740
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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