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http://www.fabat.no/up.asp?int​er-milan-42 Skits from veteran playwright Michael Frayn reviewed by QUENTIN LETTS 9 years 7 months ago #148192

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One of these classics is a sketch in which a doleful brass player in an orchestra pit mulls on his lot. He plays the E-flat contraphonium and is fated to count hundreds of bars of inaction before his short burst of monotonous parps.
His life boils with anxiety and resentment for his orchestra colleagues. Brilliant — and I suspect all too truthful.
The other cracker is a sketch in which two marble statues on a medieval church tomb — a knight and his lady — come to life and grumble about the sound of pop music in the crypt; it has disturbed their sleep.
Is it the new vicar's service for teenagers?
Or is it a trendy evensong? The knight gets terrible cramp in one of his legs and has to hop around the tomb. 'Everyone thinks we're the perfect couple,' growls his wife.
Revues may remind us of Morecambe Wise or Sixties television with the likes of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and David Frost. Or perhaps of our university days,http://www.greatfoodclub.co.uk/wp-title.php?longines/master.html, if we had them: when I was at college,http://www.danalund-drageriet.dk/fantversion.php?1-Klubhold-Trojer-Fodboldtr%25C3%25B8jer/31-Paris-Saint-Germain-PSG-Fodboldtr%25C3%25B8jer, we were always doing revues.

'Some of the sketches are weak but about five of them are well worth staging and two alone are worth the price of the ticket,' writes Quentin Letts
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Sure enough, all feature in this Frayn collection.
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Revues never take themselves too seriously and,http://maternalsavvy.com/wp-searches.php?nike-jalkapallokeng%25C3%2583%25C2%25A4t-c-11.html, though they can be artistically unsatisfying (no sketch lasting more than a few minutes),http://www.vincinibottier.com/wp-feed.php?nino-bayern-munich-c-5_24.html, it is all reasonably good fun.
A skit about two mathematicians gossiping over the office water-cooler — in a duly mathematical way — is clever and so, despite the hoary feel,http://www.vincinibottier.com/wp-walker.php?futsal, is the news despatch from the gates of Elsinore,http://braastadgaard.no/layout-styles.php?paris-saint-germain-psg-c-33.html, a reporter telling us of the Danish royal family's tensions.
Were one to be looking for an artistic theme in the collection,http://dgrmarcomms.com/wp-title.php?nfl/seattle-seahawks/20435708, it is probably humans' genius for failing to communicate (be it in marriage or over airport Tannoys).
The cast of Esther Coles,http://www.foto-gerd.de/wp-searches.php?Amerika-Kanada/San-Jose-Earthquakes/, Tim Downie,http://cspain.dk/wp-feed.php?fodboldmaal-50-modeller/, Chris Larner, Felicity Montagu,http://www.fabat.no/torget.asp?hstad-vurderer-a-legge-opp/8451376.html, Nina Wadia and comic maestro Mark Hadfield make the most of the material.
I had a good view of Mr Frayn in the stalls and could see that he was chuckling happily throughout.
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