Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn, FRSLis an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth8 September 1933
fog guarantees taj-mahal
One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.
humorous essence design
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.
mean thinking opinion
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
clothes naked
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
luck ifs concepts
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.
children real hands
A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.
humor sight people
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
simple thinking play
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.