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	'''''The Two of Us''''' is a 1970 play by [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[playwright]] [[Michael Frayn]]. It consists of four one-act plays for two actors and is Frayn's first published play.		'''''The Two of Us''''' is a 1970 play by [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[playwright]] [[Michael Frayn]]. It consists of four one-act plays for two actors and is Frayn's first published play.

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	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor~~/director~~)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2024}}		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (English actor)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2024}}

	==References==		==References==

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	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]]~~<nowiki>~~ in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.{{~~</nowiki>[[Template:~~Citation needed\|~~Citation~~ ~~needed]]<nowiki>~~}}~~</nowiki>~~		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.{{Citation needed\|date=January 2024}}

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	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]]<nowiki> in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Citation needed\|Citation needed]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>

	==References==		==References==

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	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast-to-coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.

	==References==		==References==

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	* ''The New [[Don Quixote\|Quixote]]'': An eccentric young man pursues a relationship with an older woman who met him at a party where she got inebriated. When she finds him at her door the next morning she wants nothing more of him.		* ''The New [[Don Quixote\|Quixote]]'': An eccentric young man pursues a relationship with an older woman who met him at a party where she got inebriated. When she finds him at her door the next morning she wants nothing more of him.
	* ''Mr Foot'': An Englishman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.		* ''Mr Foot'': An Englishman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.
	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>[http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html ~~Noises Off, a~~ CurtainUp ~~review<!--~~ ~~Bot~~ ~~generated~~ ~~title~~ ~~-->]~~</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>Barbara K. Mehlman, [http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html "A ''CurtainUp'' Review: ''Noises Off''], ''CurtinUp'', January 2000.</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.
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	==External links==		==External links==
	*http://www.guardian.co.uk/booker/Story/0,,201703,00.html		* Nicholas Wroe, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/booker/Story/0,,201703,00.html "A serious kind of joker"], ''The Guardian'', 14 August 1999.
	*http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsF/frayn-michael.html		*http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsF/frayn-michael.html
	*http://www.kakiseni.com/events/theatre/ODU3MQ.html		*http://www.kakiseni.com/events/theatre/ODU3MQ.html
	*http://www.nytheatre-wire.com/frayn.htm		* [http://www.nytheatre-wire.com/frayn.htm "A Michael Frayn Double-Bill is Presented by New York's Two Leading Deaf Theater Companies"], ''The New York Theatre Wire''.

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	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>[http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html Noises Off, a CurtainUp review<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>[http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html Noises Off, a CurtainUp review<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for 3 actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour~~, a sign of those times~~.		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for three actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour.

	==References==		==References==

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	* ''The New [[Don Quixote\|Quixote]]'': An eccentric young man pursues a relationship with an older woman who met him at a party where she got inebriated. When she finds him at her door the next morning she wants nothing more of him.		* ''The New [[Don Quixote\|Quixote]]'': An eccentric young man pursues a relationship with an older woman who met him at a party where she got inebriated. When she finds him at her door the next morning she wants nothing more of him.
	* ''Mr Foot'': An Englishman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.		* ''Mr Foot'': An Englishman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.
	* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself<ref>[http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html Noises Off, a CurtainUp review<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.		* ''Chinamen'': A [[farce]] about a catastrophic dinner party, in which the two actors play all of the characters. (The host of the party remarks, early in the piece, that he has trouble telling his typical English friends apart, comparing them to the proverbial [[Chinaman (term)\|Chinamen]] that all supposedly look alike.) The play is a tour-de-force, with the two actors changing costumes and assuming new roles without apparent effort. Frayn considered the frantic backstage activity funnier than the play itself,<ref>[http://www.curtainup.com/noisesoff.html Noises Off, a CurtainUp review<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> which inspired his very successful play ''[[Noises Off]]''.

	Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for 3 actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour, a sign of those times.		Lynn Redgrave and [[John Clark (actor/director)\|John Clark]] later optioned ''The Two of Us'' for a successful 1975 coast to coast United States tour. Unable to find one actor willing and able to play all the male parts, director Clark settled for 3 actors. For ''The New Quixote'' he had cast a black actor to increase the woman's dilemma, but when the play reached [[Elitch Gardens]] in Denver, the theatre producer refused to let the play go on unless the part was recast with a white actor. The same refusal was repeated throughout the tour, a sign of those times.

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	'''''The Two of Us''''' is a 1970 play by [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[playwright]] [[Michael Frayn]]. It consists of four one-act plays for two actors and is Frayn's first published play.		'''''The Two of Us''''' is a 1970 play by [[United Kingdom\|British]] [[playwright]] [[Michael Frayn]]. It consists of four one-act plays for two actors and is Frayn's first published play.