Michael Frayn Plays: 4: Copenhagen, Democracy and Afterlife

Michael Frayn: A deeply sophisticated dramatist...the range and brilliance of his writing have been phenomenal...His work in the theatre has a very particular profile; elegant, precise, meticulous, with a certain steely craftsmanship, glintingly intelligent, theatrically inventive but never self-advertisingly so, human but always slightly distanced. Guardian

Copenhagen: `The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year and a work of art that humanizes physics in a way no other had done. New York Times

`Michael Frayn's tremendous new play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session. Sunday Times

Democracy: `Michael Frayn's complex and richly rewarding new play...is wonderfully alert to the piquant paradoxes and ironic twists of this intensely tricky period in Germany's conversation with itself. Independent

`Michael Frayn's Democracy... is one of those rare dramas that don't just dare to think big but that fully translate their high aspirations to the stage, with sharp style and thrilling clarity. New York Times

Afterlife: In his seventy-fifth year Michael Frayn has produced a minor masterpiece, and maybe not so minor either. I'd guess Afterlife is the best verse drama in English since T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedal... New Stateman

`Michael Frayn's magnificent new play...Frayn exploits to chilling effect the ambiguous border between playing and reality. Times Literary Supplement