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  • Copenhagen

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Now You Know

    Play

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer) ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Democracy

    A Play

    by Michael Frayn ...
    A brilliant exploration of character and conscience from the author of COPENHAGEN, set amid the tensions of 1960s BerlinIn Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the known events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966 and those of his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Skios

    A Novel

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearOn the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an aging and ponderous authority on the scientific organization of science. He turns out to be surprisingly youthful and charming, and everyone is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Noises Off

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces 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, and exit from that only to make their entrances ... Read more

    $50.49 USD

  • Noises Off

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    “As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The GuardianA play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Stage Directions

    Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into theatre: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly late in life, his reluctant conversion. Whatever subjects he tackles, from the exploration of the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Copenhagen

    by Michael Frayn ...
    **TONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times**In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Copenhagen

    Unabridged

    2 hours 4 min

    How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their reunion. Joined by Niels' wife, Margrethe, these three ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Magic Mobile

    35 pre-loaded new text files

    by Michael Frayn ...
    A mobile phone is something that gives you the whole world at the touch of your finger - but this book is even better. Magic Mobile is a collection of thirty 'pre-loaded' new text files in a no-fuss, non-digital entertainment system. In a volume that succeeds Matchbox Theatre and Pocket Playhouse, each of these short comic masterpieces displays Michael Frayn's unique genius in forever capturing ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Human Touch

    Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

    by Michael Frayn ...
    What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Here, the acclaimed playwright and novelist takes on the great questions of his career—and of our livesHumankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Noises Off

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on - getting off...that's farce. That's the theatre. That's life.Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce Noises Off, enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982, has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever ... Read more

    $15.39 USD