21-416: Wild Honey or Wildhoney may refer to: Film and theatre [ edit ] Wild Honey (play) , a 1984 play by Michael Frayn Wild Honey (1918 film) , a silent film Western Wild Honey (1922 film) , a silent film Wild Honey , a 1942 Barney Bear cartoon Music [ edit ] Wild Honey (band) , an Australian rock band Wild Honey,
42-525: A 2006 young adult novel in the series The Phantom Stallion by Terri Farley See also [ edit ] Bitter Honey (disambiguation) Honey (disambiguation) Wild at Honey , an album by Guitar Vader " Wild Honey Pie ", by the Beatles Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wild Honey . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
63-530: A Revival , Christopher Morahan as Director of the Year and John Gunter as Designer of the Year . "Anna Petrovna" was played by Charlotte Cornwell . The play opened at New York's Virginia Theatre in December 1986 presented by impresario Douglas Urbanski with McKellen repeating his title role, but otherwise with an American cast which included Kim Cattrall , Kathryn Walker and Kate Burton . The play
84-689: A book about philosophy, Constructions , and a book of his own philosophy, The Human Touch . His columns for The Guardian and The Observer (collected in At Bay in Gear Street, The Day of the Dog , The Book of Fub and On the Outskirts ) are models of the comic essay; in the 1980s a number of them were adapted and performed for BBC Radio 4 by Martin Jarvis . Frayn has also written screenplays for
105-548: A historical event, a 1941 meeting between the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his protégé, the German Werner Heisenberg , when Denmark is under German occupation, and Heisenberg is—maybe?—working on the development of an atomic bomb . Frayn was attracted to the topic because it seemed to 'encapsulate something about the difficulty of knowing why people do what they do and there is a parallel between that and
126-476: A late-1970s American girl group featuring Freddi Poole Wild Honey, a 1970s American band formed by Ron Townson Albums [ edit ] Wild Honey (album) , an album by the Beach Boys Wildhoney (Tiamat album) Birrkuta – Wild Honey , an album by Yothu Yindi Songs [ edit ] "Wild Honey" (The Beach Boys song) "Wild Honey" (U2 song) "Wild Honey",
147-588: A play from the 1980s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Michael Frayn Michael Frayn , FRSL ( / f r eɪ n / ; born 8 September 1933) 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
168-432: A song by Dr. John from City Lights "Wild Honey", a 2013 cover by Hugh Laurie from Didn't It Rain "Wild Honey", a 1980 song by Van Morrison from Common One Literature [ edit ] Wild Honey , 1964 collection of poetry by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wild Honey , 1982 novel by Fern Michaels ' Wild Honey from Various Thyme , 1908 collection of poetry by Michael Field Wild Honey ,
189-461: A sprawling five-hour drama from Chekhov's earliest years as a writer, has no title, but is usually known in English as Platonov , after its principal character "Mikhail Platonov", a disillusioned provincial schoolmaster. Frayn's adaptation was given its first production at London's National Theatre in 1984 and won Olivier Awards in three categories: for Ian McKellen as Actor of the Year in
210-681: The 1999 Booker Prize ), The Tin Men (won the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award ), The Russian Interpreter (1967, Hawthornden Prize ), Towards the End of the Morning , Sweet Dreams , A Landing on the Sun , A Very Private Life , Now You Know and Skios (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2012). His novel Spies was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002. He has written
231-721: The Australian journey of the BBC television series Great Railway Journeys of the World . His journey took him from Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific , with side visits to the Lithgow Zig Zag and a journey on The Ghan 's old route from Marree to Alice Springs shortly before the opening of the new line from Tarcoola to Alice Springs . Frayn has three daughters with his first wife, Gillian Palmer: Rebecca ,
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#1732771772388252-756: The East German spy Günter Guillaume . Five years later, again at the National Theatre, it was followed by Afterlife , a biographical drama of the life of the great Austrian impresario Max Reinhardt , director of the Salzburg Festival, which opened at the Lyttelton Theatre in June 2008, starring Roger Allam as Reinhardt. His other original plays include two evenings of short plays, The Two of Us and Alarms and Excursions ,
273-549: The films Clockwise , starring John Cleese , First and Last starring Tom Wilkinson , Birthday , Jamie on a Flying Visit , and the TV series Making Faces , starring Eleanor Bron . Frayn learned Russian during his period of National Service. Frayn is now considered to be Britain's finest translator of Anton Chekhov ( The Seagull , Uncle Vanya , Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard ), including an early untitled work, which he titled Wild Honey (other translations of
294-582: The handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006). Frayn was born at Mill Hill , north London (then in Middlesex ), to Thomas Allen Frayn, an asbestos salesman from a working-class family of blacksmiths , locksmiths and servants, in which deafness
315-629: The impossibility that Heisenberg established in physics, about ever knowing everything about the behaviour of physical objects'. The play explores various possibilities. Frayn's more recent play Democracy ran successfully in London (the National Theatre , 2003-4 and West End transfer), Copenhagen and on Broadway ( Brooks Atkinson Theatre , 2004-5); it dramatised the story of the German chancellor Willy Brandt and his personal assistant,
336-501: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wild_Honey&oldid=1078310496 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wild Honey (play) Wild Honey is a 1984 adaptation by British playwright Michael Frayn of an earlier play by Anton Chekhov . The original work,
357-399: The philosophical comedies Alphabetical Order , Benefactors , Clouds , Make and Break and Here , and the farces Donkeys' Years , Balmoral (also known as Liberty Hall ), and Noises Off , which critic Frank Rich in his book The Hot Seat claimed "is, was, and probably always will be the funniest play written in my lifetime." His novels include Headlong (shortlisted for
378-524: The work have called it Platonov or Don Juan in the Russian Manner ). From four of Chekhov's short stories and four of his one-act plays Frayn devised The Sneeze (originally performed on the West End by Rowan Atkinson ). Frayn has also translated Yuri Trifonov 's play Exchange , Leo Tolstoy 's The Fruits of Enlightenment , and Jean Anouilh 's Number One . In 1980, Frayn presented
399-483: Was broadcast as a radio play on the digital radio station, BBC7 on 31 January 2010 as part of a BBC radio season of documentaries , drama, short stories and essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Chekhov's birthday. Ian McKellen returned to play Platonov, while Anna Calder Marshall played Sasha. BBC Radio 4 broadcast another production in 2018, directed by Clive Brill, starring David Tennant as Platonov and Olivia Darnley as Sasha. This article on
420-566: Was educated at Kingston Grammar School . Following two years of National Service , during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists , Frayn read Moral Sciences ( Philosophy ) at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , graduating in 1957. He then worked as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian and The Observer , where he established a reputation as a satirist and comic writer, and began publishing his plays and novels. The play Copenhagen deals with
441-538: Was hereditary, and his wife Violet Alice (née Lawson). Violet was the daughter of a failed palliasse merchant; having studied as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music , she worked as a shop assistant and occasional clothes model at Harrods . After the slump in asbestos prices, Frayn's sister supported the family by also working at Harrods, as a children's hairdresser. Frayn grew up in Ewell , Surrey , and
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