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Article: mr write; As Michael Frayn's latest award-winning play, Democracy, transfers to the West End, Nick Curtis meets the playwright and novelist whose work encompasses everything from farce to physics.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2004
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Byline: NICK CURTIS
For a man once described as a writer of boulevard comedies, Michael Frayn has been getting rather serious of late. This winner of myriad awards, including several from this newspaper, immersed himself in art history and in the awful solemnity of wartime childhood in his last two novels, Headlong and Spies. In his last-but-one stage play, Copenhagen, he explored nuclear physics and scientific morals via the mysterious wartime meeting of the Danish and the German physicists Nils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
Most recently, he's addressed Cold War politics and the psychology of espionage in Democracy, an investigation of German Chancellor ...
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