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Donkeys' Years
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Donkeys' Years

BookPaperback
Ranking79187inSprachen
CHF23.90

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Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy.

Twenty years after graduation, six former students return totheir university college for a reunion dinner. Whilst their lives mayhave had varying degrees of success, all are connected by a commonpast. Once locked in college for the night, the graduates begin torelive their youth, and old friendships, feuds - and the much-desiredbut absurdly proper Master's wife - come tumbling back into the present. . .

'The show reaches that plateau of comic bliss when it becomes physically impossible to stop laughing' Daily Telegraph

'The West End's summer gets off to an exhilarating start withthe hilarious return of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years' SundayExpress

'All the confidence of a serious comic masterpiece.Masterclass performances. This is one of the best revivals in the WestEnd for years. Unmissable!' Sunday Times
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-413-77622-8
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date22/06/2006
Pages112 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 197 mm, Height 131 mm, Thickness 8 mm
Weight98 g
Article no.4232993
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.2651687
Product groupSprachen
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Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. He has written seventeen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, and Democracy, translated Chekhov´s last four plays, and adapted his first as Wild Honey. His screenplays include Clockwise, starring John Cleese, and among his eleven novels are The Tin Men, Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies, and Skios. Collections of articles include Collected Columns, Stage Directions, and Travels with a Typewriter. He has also published two philosophical works, Constructions and The Human Touch, and a memoir, My Father´s Fortune. His most recent publications are three collections of short entertainments, Matchbox Theatre, Pocket Playhouse, and Magic Mobile. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.