Donkeys' Years

Donkeys' Years by English playwright Michael Frayn premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1976. The play is a West End farce, a genre that Frayn parodied five years later in his play within a play Nothing On from Noises Off. In Donkeys' Years six former students spend the weekend at their old university college for their 25th year reunion. The wife of the Master of the college becomes locked within its walls for the night, supplying the material for a classical bedroom farce. A cabinet minister is placed in a series of embarrassing positions. (Source: Wikipedia).

In South Africa a Monterey and Pilgrim Players Production was directed by Brenda Gray and performed in the Baxter Studio in 1982. (Source: Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).

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