Tom Sharpe wrote brilliant farces, David lodge writes campus novels, here frayn mixes them up and sets the result on a Greek Island. Very competent and readable , but light holiday matter.
blurb: Benedict Cumberbatch, Greta Scacchi and Simon Russell Beale star in Michael Frayn's award-winning play about the controversial 1941 meeting between physicists Bohr and Heisenberg, part of a joint Radio 3 and Radio 4 series of three Michael Frayn dramas for radio - including new adaptations of...
Historical metaphysical postmodern Morality/WWII play set around the man who I believe is the inspiration for The Sound of Music's Uncle Max. WHOA. Michael Frayn can do anything.
Skios is a bit of a light entertainment for the Booker long list. I'd have read this as a palate cleanser between the potential award winners. That's not to say it isn't well-written, however. There are great comic bits and, for the most part, Frayn is consistent and keeps a good pace. The book falt...
A witty, clever farce. Frayn is very skillful in his use of comedy here, and he takes his time building up the characters so that—by the time one is midway through the novel—his continued introductions and complications are just uproariously fantastical and often laugh-out-loud hysterical.Frayn's us...
Via my LectusThe first thing I’m going to say is that Skios would make a pretty funny movie because anything with mistaken identity is funny.Dr. Norman Wilfred is going to Skios, a private island on Greece, to give a lecture. On the same flight goes Oliver Fox, kind of a free spirit-modern-hippie wh...
This is the only novel I've read by Frayn which has somewhat disappointed me and I think I know why. It isn't a novel. It's a play, or more likely, it's a screen play.One of the very finest things Frayn does (and that is high praise indeed) is frantic farce. He does Fawlty Towers better than John Cl...
Young couple Phil and Cath attempt to impose order on their tiny flat. Stars Samuel West, Lucy Tregear and Margaret Courtney.You can listen too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00db303/Michael_Frayn_Here/NOT MUCH LATER: sheesh but this is appalling. Imagine paying to see something so awful.
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