Donkeys' Years

Donkeys' Years
Donkeys' Years
Written by Michael Frayn
Date premiered 1976
Place premiered Globe Theatre
London
Original language English
Subject a group of men at their twentieth college reunion find themselves regressing to their undergraduate behaviors
Genre Comedy/farce

Donkeys' Years is a play by English playwright Michael Frayn that 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.

The play was revived in 2006 at the Comedy Theatre.

References


Further reading

  • Frayn, Michael (1977). Donkeys' Years: A Play (First ed.). London: Samuel French. ISBN 0573110972. 
v · d · eLaurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (1976–2000)

Donkeys' Years (1976) · Privates on Parade (1977) · Filumena (1978) · Middle-Age Spread (1979) · Educating Rita (1980) · Steaming (1981) · Noises Off (1982) · Daisy Pulls It Off (1983) · Up 'n' Under (1984) · A Chorus of Disapproval (1985) · When We Are Married (1986) · Three Men on a Horse (1987) · Shirley Valentine (1988) · Single Spies (1990) · Out of Order (1991) · La Bête (1992) · The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (1993) · Hysteria (1994) · My Night with Reg (1995) · Mojo (1996) · 'Art' (1997) · Popcorn (1998) · Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1999) · The Memory of Water (2000)
Complete list · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025)


Stub icon This article on a play from the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.