Biography of Michael Frayn


Study Guides on Works by Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen took home the Tony Award for Best Play in 2000: pretty heady company for a really heady play about quantum physics pitting Niels Bohr against Werner Heisenberg. (That’s Werner Heisenberg…not Walter White’s Heisenberg.)...

Michael Frayn’s frenetic audience-pleasing farce Noises Off began life as a one-act play with the title Exits first performed in 1977 at Drury Lane. The success of that performance led to the commission for the play to be expanded into a...

Spies is a psychological novel written by novelist and playwright Micheal Frayn. It was published in 2002 and received the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, the 2002 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best...