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Aug 27, 2002 | ISBN 9781400031603 Buy
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Aug 27, 2002 | ISBN 9781400031603
Nov 19, 2008 | ISBN 9780307488886
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.
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… More about Michael Frayn
“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
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