Michael Frayn

Magic Lantern: Michael Frayn's Prague

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

Magic Lantern: Michael Frayn's Prague

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.

Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series ITV Sunday Night Drama.

Brian Jessel, a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is asked to investigate the mysterious death of the civil servant Stephen Summerchild twenty years earlier. Summerchild was working on a Cabinet project, under the Oxford philosophy don Elizabeth Serafin, to find the "quality of life" in Britain. Jessel finds a box of audio tapes from the project containing all the discussions up to the time Summerchild fell off the Admiralty Building.

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Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.