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Director Michael Blakemore has guided all playwright Michael Frayn's hits from page to stage. As their latest collaboration transfers to the West End, they tell Dominic Cavendish why their friendship has thrived over 35 years - despite one's attempt to drown the other
What a curious coincidence it looks in retrospect. In 1969, Willy Brandt was elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was also the year that Michael Frayn, then best known as a journalist and novelist, first met the theatre director Michael Blakemore.
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