Balmoral (Methuen Modern Plays) [Paperback]

Michael Frayn (Author)

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About the Author

Michael Frayn's work for the stage includes Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. His other works include Democracy (National Theatre and West End prior to Broadway) and Copenhagen (winner of numerous awards including the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Best Play Awards 1998). He has translated Chekhov's four last plays and is also a novelist and recipient of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel for Spies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Methuen; First edition (November 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0413171809
• ISBN-13: 978-0413171801
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,524,433 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife.