Frayn

British

/ freɪn /

noun

Michael . born 1933, British playwright, novelist, and translator; his plays include The Two of Us (1970), Noises Off (1982), Copenhagen (1998), and Democracy (2004); novels include A Landing on the Sun (1991) and Spies (2002)

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Act Three, which brings a performance of “Nothing On” to utter collapse, doesn’t quite reach the lunatic heights that Frayn intends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025

“You might step on the scale, see the number go up and all of a sudden do something to compensate for that,” Frayn said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022

My husband, Michael Frayn, is finishing a book and I hope to read the typescript of that next.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

Also at the protest was playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, 86, who said he was introduced to the Extinction Rebellion cause by his grandson, Jack Harries, a YouTuber and environmental activist.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2019

Frayn suggests that indeterminacy would be a better word for the principle and indeterminability would be better still.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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