Michael Frayn

The cast was exceptionally fine. All have done well and all shall have prizes. I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge, unmistakeable even looking through a letter box

Frayn has the mature humorist's horror of gags to no purpose. It is not a case of the clown wanting to play Hamlet, since Frayn was never a clown. The desire is to carry the comic vision through to its consequences, following E. M. Forster's dictum that art must be pursued to extremes.