This playwright adapted the structure of Everyman for his 2008 play Afterlife. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this British playwright, who wrote a farce where the alcoholic Selsdon Mowbray frustrates Lloyd Dallas, the director of the play-within-a-play Noises On.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn (the unnamed play is Noises Off)
[10e] In Frayn’s play Copenhagen, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg appear as these beings. Prince Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, appears only as one of these beings.
ANSWER: Ghosts [or spirits]
[10m] In Frayn’s novel Headlong, Martin Clay thinks he has discovered a painting in this artist’s series The Months. A poem based on a painting by him describes how “About suffering they were never wrong, the old Masters.”
ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder [or Pieter Brueghel the Elder; reject “Pieter Brueghel the Younger”] (the unnamed poem is “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden)
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