Acting Edition S. Series

In his latest novel Michael Frayn explores the same comic territory--the ethically murky corners of British public life--he staked out in A Landing on the Sun, which the Washington Post called "marvelous . . . wise and witty . . . a true page-turner". If anything, Now You Know is even funnier and more irresistibly readable.

Benefactors

by Michael Frayn

Published 12 April 1984

This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.2 women, 2 men

Alphabetical Order

by Michael Frayn

Published 1 October 1976

Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organisation in the person of the new library assistant, Leslie, and humane confusion in the person of Lucy, the much-loved resident librarian. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, Frayn draws his gallery of characters with the hilarious accuracy which can only come from first-hand experience. This edition features the author's revised version of the script presented at the Hampstead Theatre in April 2009.

Clouds

by Michael Frayn

Published 1 March 1977

Owen Shorter, professional journalist, and Mara Hill, well known lady novelist, discover at the beginning of the play that they have been sent to Cuba to write for rival color supplements. We follow their progress, together with Ed, an author from Illinois, and their guide, Angel, on their fact finding mission, as they do the obligatory rounds of official visits to sugar cane processing plants, new towns and other industrial show pieces.-2 women, 3 men

Make and Break

by Michael Frayn

Published 1 September 1980

John Garrard is a successful manufacturer who is driven by a compulsion to use and consume the world and the people around him. He is briefly intensely curious about everything he comes across, particularly other people's worlds: their religious beliefs, their sexual and artistic yearnings and their feelings about him. During one climactic night amid the hectic activities of a trade fair in Germany, it looks as if he will be forced to turn his sharp eyes upon himself and come face to face at last with silence and darkness.2 women, 11 men

Two of Us

by Michael Frayn

Published 26 October 1970

A collection of short plays

Black and Silver

Characters: 1 male, 1 female

Interior Set

In this short, affecting and laughable scene parents are awakened in the middle of the night by the baby. They stumble about trying to pacify the infant. At one point the husband panics because he cannot hear the baby breathing in the cradle, which is only reasonable because the wife has put it on their bed.

Mr. Foot

Characters: 1 male, 1 female

Interior Set