News about Michael Frayn

Tamzin Outhwaite, 52, underwent traumatization therapy, which was so life-changing that the UK actress founded We Free Women to give retreats to those in need. Tamzin is currently playing in Michael Frayn's Noises Off with Felicity Kendal, and she says her work is also a great healer.

She has had a long and varied career in Hollywood, which includes fun Eighties films as well as a huge TV show that changed the way women think about fashion and friendship. This adored blonde bombshell posted a snapshot from her past on Instagram on Thursday. And the red carpet queen took it a long time before her big in Hollywood. The beauty in question was seen with curly jet black hair and a straw hat as she gazed at the camera with a calm attitude. The image was taken from the set of a 'period drama' in the 1970s, according to the artist in her caption. Can you guess who she is?

Albert Read (pictured) is reading Michael Frayn's book Towards The End Of The Morning by Michael Frayn. Marcel Proust's In Search Of Lost Time, the managing director of Conde Nast UK and author, will fly to a desert island. The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas first gave him the reading bug

PATRICK MARMION: The scenery is supposed to wobble. The gags are supposed to make us groan. And the rain-dropping, door-banging mania is likely to creak like the Mary Celeste. Michael Frayn's vintage farce, which stars Felicity Kendal, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Alexander Hanson, and Matthew Kelly, is right up there with Fawlty Towers as a bravura piece of comedy plotting. Nor does Lindsay Posner's clockwork show no respect, owing to music between acts that is notably reminiscent of the TV show's theme tune. This is unlike John Cleese's comedies, but there are no familiar characters such as Basil, Sybil, and The Major. And it's certainly showing its age, with gags including a mention of Dame Myra Hess (a once-famous pianist, M'Lud) who performed during the air raids.