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Alphabetical Order and Donkeys' Years
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'It is no barrier to the enjoyment of Michael Frayn's 1975 comedy that the kind of newspaper cuttings library in which it takes place has been superseded by digital archives The great virtue of this enlightened comedy is that it transcends the technological revolution to deal with eternal verities.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 22.4.09 'Michael Frayn's sweet-natured comedy about an endangered regional newspaper raises wry chuckles 34 years on from its first performance The play is a sentimental and prescient protest against those who prioritise efficiency and profit margins over human beings Its quasi-philosophical homage to the art of cataloguing information has arguably become more interesting over the intervening years, an inadvertent prophecy of the triumphant age of Google.' Claire Allfree, Metro, 23.4.09 'Frayn studs his script with typically wry, philosophical one-liners that slip easily off his over-analytical characters' tongues. And their goal, at first murky, turns out to be survival itself.' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23.4.09 'Alphabetical Order proves poignant as well as funny. It also seems astonishingly prescient Frayn's fictional paper's fate eerily mirrors the current acute anxiety in the newspaper business where long established titles are collapsing with alarming frequency.' --Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 23.4.09
Michael Frayn's delightful 1975 newspaper cuttings-library comedy. --Michael Coveney, Independent (23.4.09)
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Michael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist and author of "Noises Off" and the dramas "Copenhagen" and "Democracy."
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1977. Texto en inglés. Teatro. 165 pp. 19 x 12. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 0413379906. Seller Inventory # 027308
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