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
genuine highbrow
Highbrow lowbrows. No - not even genuine highbrow lowbrows. Middlebrow highbrow lowbrows.
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.
lions speak ifs
If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
destination changed things-have-changed
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.