"Black & Silver" and Chinamen

The Actors Studio presents two comedies by one of the funniest men that ever picked up a pen.

Black and Silver and Chinamen by Michael Frayn.

Michael Frayn, born in 1933 is a writer, translator and playwright who is probably best known for the long running West End and Broadway hit comedy Noises Off, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve and Denholm Elliot. Noises Off is partly inspired by Frayn's experiences with his earlier play Chinamen; he once commented that during a performance of that play, the chaos behind the scenes was often more entertaining than the action on-stage.

Black and Silver and Chinamen

A young married couple returns for a romantic break to their honeymoon hotel in Venice Italy, only this time, bringing their newly born baby along with them. Set in the small hours of the morning, the play sees the young couple struggling to relive the romance and retain their sanity as baby gets up to all the things that babies do in the middle of night!

The second half of this double bill sees two actors playing five characters in Chinamen.

“I can’t really tell our friends apart, that’s the trouble….same age, same number of children, same income, same opinions…” Stephen and Jo have friends round to dinner but find out too late that they’ve independently invited both halves of a couple, Barney and Bee, who recently separated – and worse, Bee is bringing her new boyfriend Alex! This hilarious farce follows their increasingly frantic attempts to keep Barney from meeting Bee and Alex by running two separate dinner parties in two different rooms in the house at the same time! The quickfire plot will leave the audience amused and amazed as the actors come and go through various doors switching from one character to another in an increasingly frenzied set of quick changes.

Performance Details:-

Black and Silver & Chinamen:

9 – 12, 15-19 August: 8.30pm (Show)
3 & 20 August: 3pm (Show)


Ticket Price: RM 40 (Adult)
RM 25 (Students, Sr. Citizens and Disabled)
Promotion: RM 25 (All) – only on Tuesday – Thursday & Sunday matinee