Pocket Playhouse

Thirty-six short entertainments

Michael Frayn

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571333165
• Year: 2017

Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.

Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING YOUR POCKET PLAYHOUSE
• THE HERITAGE EXPERIENCE
• SO WHO IS SYLVIA?
• A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
• WHITHER THE WEATHER?
• THROUGH!
• CREDO
• HIM
• OPEN SECRET
• BACKDATE
• THANKS MOST AWFULLY
• SPONSOR ME!
• LIFE STUDIES
• MANY APOLOGIES
• GOING FOR GOLD
• I KNOW I KNOW
• HOMUNCULUS
• ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
• MY MEETING WITH MOZART
• STILL LIFE
• YOU’VE DONE THIS KIND OF THING BEFORE, I CAN TELL
• UPDATE
• YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED
• CHE SARA
• THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE NEXT PIECE …
• MASTERPROMPT
• REMEMBERING REMEMBERED
• LOOKING BACK
• THE CORRECTED VERSION
• HELL’S KITCHEN
• INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH
• QUEST
• HYMNS ANCIENT AND MODERN
• WHO AM I?
• THE ANNOTATED RICHARD
• TWO READERS WRITE …
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• Copyright