Reviews & Quotes Toured
Three one-act farcical plays linked only by the fact that they are all played by the same two actors.
Firstly, in 'The New Quixote', a young man has a fling with a girl which is so unmemorable she forgets about it immediately, that is until he returns to take up residence.
Secondly, 'Mr Foot', concerns a dysfunctional couple's reaction to the fact that the man is in line for a new job and the woman has to be vetted by his new employer.
The final play, 'Chinamen', is the longest and in it the actors share 5 parts. The action focuses around a dinner party to which friends have been invited who at all cost must not meet which, inevitably, they do!
Michael Frayn is one of Britain 's foremost dramatists and translators as well as having been a noted columnist and reporter and he leads the field in farce. The Two of Us is Michael Frayn's first play. He is perhaps best know for Noises Off (1982), which won Frayn his third Evening Standard Award for 'Best Comedy of the Year' and enjoyed a run of four years in London's West End and is continually performed in some part of the world.
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