In a play by this author, a plate of sardines is involved in mishaps like sticking to a man’s hand and getting dumped over a woman’s head. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the farce Noises Off. This author also wrote Copenhagen, in which the ghosts of Bohr and Heisenberg discuss a 1941 meeting in the title city.
ANSWER: Michael Frayn
[10e] Frayn’s Noises Off is centered on one of these literary devices directed by the character Lloyd Dallas. Another example of this literary device is Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
ANSWER: play within a play [accept fictional play; accept descriptions of a performance in a play; accept nested play; prompt on play]
[10h] In this play, the playwright Henry writes the play-within-a-play House of Cards. In this play, Henry’s partner Anne asks him to ghostwrite a play for the soldier Brodie, who is imprisoned after setting fire to the Cenotaph.
ANSWER: The Real Thing (by Tom Stoppard)
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