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Article: Germans & their spies: Michael Frayn's 'Democracy'.(Stage)(Theater Review)
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- January 28, 2005
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If you could set a play inside George Stephanopoulos's mind, and send in a German John Le Carre to do a little reupholstering, you might end up with a script like Michael Frayn's Democracy, one of the most highly praised plays to hit Broadway this season. A provocative and witty account of the spy scandal that felled the government of West German chancellor Willy Brandt in the 1970s, Democracy scored a slew of British awards when it opened in London in 2003, and American theater mavens waited with bated breath to see if it would repeat the stateside success of Frayn's scientific puzzler Copenhagen, which won the Tony for best play in 2000.
Certainly the U.S. ...
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Article: Where's the Drama in Democracy? Frayn's Latest Forgets ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);
November 29, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... many years. But Democracy is rudimentary ... story of Willy Brandt, the West German ... told throughout Democracy, for example, that Willy Brandt possesses a mysteriously ... experience him in Democracy, anyway. Mr. Frayn's Brandt is merely stodgy ...
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