Michael Frayn's 1977 play Donkeys' Years is a classic bedroom farce; Frayn parodied the genre in his 1982 play Noises Off via its play-within-the-play, "Nothing On." Alan Ayckbourn's play, entitled Bedroom Farce, looks at the lives of three couples seen in their own bedrooms, the stage being split into three sets for this purpose.
Paul played Dickie Sainsbury in the West End revival of Michael Frayn's Donkeys' Years.
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In 2009, Adrian was included in a pool of eight writer directors as part of the filmmakers collective Advance Party II - the successor to Sigma Films and Zentropa’s Advance Party which produced Andrea Arnorld’s Cannes Jury Prize winning feature film Red Road, and Morag McKinnon’s Rounding Up Donkeys.
The dam is in a region of Acacia savanna that is used for grazing many livestock including sheep, goats, donkeys and cattle.
Chokmanovo was a summer area, and some of the oldest residents still remember walking their donkeys to markets in Xanthi.
The experience of the neglected donkeys in Exeter led Svendsen to establish The Donkey Sanctuary in 1969.
The expression avvento dell'asinocrazia was first used in 1968 by Giovanni Sartori in an article published by the Corriere della Sera to characterize the student movement as a "triumph of the donkeys".
The author of the preface describes the former ecclesiastical chant as "shouting like the priests of Baal in unclear cries" and "cry like the forest-donkeys to a deaf God".
He quotes William Cornwallis Harris' description of an annual bazaar that started each September, when "for two months the beach is piled with merchandise, and the suburbs are crowded with camels, mules and donkeys."
Donkeys may also be infested with worms or lice or have open wounds caused by poor harnessing or whipping.