A classic comedy from one of Britain's leading dramatists. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1975. A revised edition of the script presented at Hampstead Theatre from April 2009. MIchael Frayn work has achieved remarkable success with hit plays ranging from comic farces, such as Donkeys Years and Noises Off, to the most intelligent and gripping of stage dramas, such as Copenhagen and Democracy. Michael Frayn's other work includes the award-winning novel, Spies, and the recent work of non-fiction, The Human Touch.

Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organisation in the person of the new library assistant, Leslie, and humane confusion in the person of Lucy, the much-loved resident librarian. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, Frayn draws his gallery of characters with the hilarious accuracy which can only come from first-hand experience. This edition features the author's revised version of the script presented at the Hampstead Theatre in April 2009.