The Crimson Hotel & Audience

by Michael Frayn

In this absurdist comedy two lovers - a playwright and his leadactress - escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjuredfrom a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains ofRoom 322 materialise around them, a fumbling of fastenings ensues. Butthey soon discover they're not the only couple intent on escaping fromreality. . .

The Crimson Hotel has its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, on 25 July 2007.

The volume also features the one-act play, Audience, a delightful send-up which holds up a mirror to the outlandish behaviour and comedy inherent in every theatre audience.

96 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2007

About the author

Michael Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.

Reviews

[Michael Reffold · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining enough, if a little gimmicky. Read for my drama group as Audience may be a future production.