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Download or read book Simon Gray: Plays 2 written by Simon Gray and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged 'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays.' Harold Pinter Plaintiffs and Defendants Exceptionally good... the play gave such a rending picture of married mess that it was hard to know where to look.' Clive James, Observer 'Simon Gray is the one [TV playwright] whose work I most relish seeing for his acerbic wit, wonderful ironies and above all for his care with our mother tongue.' Dennis Potter
Download or read book Simon Gray: Plays 3 written by Simon Gray and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.' New York Times on Quartermaine's Terms
Download or read book Simon Gray: Plays 1 written by Simon Gray and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butley 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil associations are all stunningly illuminated by continuous explosions of sardonic, needling, feline, vituperative and civilised lines.' Evening Standard
Download or read book The Common Pursuit written by Simon Gray and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: begins at Cambridge University, where a group of talented undergraduates decide to start a high-minded literary magazine to be called The Common Pursuit , in honor of their mentor F.R. Leavis, a famed professor of English. Stuart,
Book Synopsis Shades of Simon Gray by : Joyce McDonald
Download or read book Shades of Simon Gray written by Joyce McDonald and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Gray is the ideal teenager — smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon crashes his car into The Liberty Tree, another portrait starts to emerge. Soon an investigation has begun into computer hacking at Simon’s high school, for it seems tests are being printed out before they are given. Could Simon be involved? Simon, meanwhile, is in a coma — but is this another appearance that may be deceiving? For inside his own head, Simon can walk around and talk to some people. He even seems to be having a curious conversation with a man who was hung for murder 200 years ago, in the branches of the same tree Simon crashed into. What can a 200-year-old murder have to do with Simon’s accident? And how do we know who is really innocent and who is really guilty?
Download or read book Japes written by Simon Gray and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new play from the popular author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
Book Synopsis The Definitive Simon Gray by : Simon Gray
Download or read book The Definitive Simon Gray written by Simon Gray and published by . This book was released on 1993-12-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of four volumes of plays and includes Quartermaine's Terms, Otherwise Engaged, Stage Struck, Close of Play, The Rear Column, A Month in the Country and Tartuffe.
Download or read book Fat Chance written by Simon Gray and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous account of Stephen Fry's departure from Cell Mates, only days after opening
Download or read book Simon Gray: Plays 4 written by Simon Gray and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.' Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit 'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed.' Howard Jacobson, Critical Quarterly Hidden Laughter 'A sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this respect, he has become an English Chekhov... At the same time, Gray dispenses some of the incandescent malice and moral savagery of Coward at his acid best... But, of course, comparisons can only help you get your bearings. Gray is entirely his own man in this painful, querulous, warm, hard and mature play.' Sunday Times
Book Synopsis Historical Catalogue of the Writings, Published and Unpublished, of Simon Gray, of Dunse, Berwickshire by : Simon Gray (of Duns, Berwickshire.)
Download or read book Historical Catalogue of the Writings, Published and Unpublished, of Simon Gray, of Dunse, Berwickshire written by Simon Gray (of Duns, Berwickshire.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simon Gray Unbound written by Peter Wolfe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of English playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always resisted ideological and stylistic labels. His artistic independence has also had an unwelcome side effect: It cost him the critical attention garnered by his peers. This book, the first monograph on Gray, examines his oeuvre from the early plays, which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional English satire, to the later ones, in which he explores English professionals and their problems connecting with each other. If Gray remains the least known major English dramatist of his day, he's also one of the boldest and best.
Book Synopsis The Complete Smoking Diaries by : Simon Gray
Download or read book The Complete Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Bringing together the four parts of The Smoking Diaries (The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and Coda) this beautiful volume is filled with comedy and serious reflection, sharp observation and painful self-disclosure. A brilliant and moving account of life's unsteady progress, it takes the reader to the heart of one man's brilliant struggle towards some kind of personal truth.
Download or read book Butley written by Simon Gray and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Playwrights, 1956-1995 by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
Download or read book Close of Play written by Simon Gray and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It is characteristic of Simon Gray to place a witty, intellectual hero center stage, and then systematically and ruthlessly reveal the barrenness of his soul and spirit. In CLOSE OF PLAY (the title is a cricket term) the central figure i
Download or read book Enter a Fox written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in a life? In this chronicle of a year of things going wrong (and just occasionally right), the author of the acclaimed The Smoking Diaries meets with triumph and disaster and treats those two impostors just the same - which is to say with the mixture of wit, anger, vexation and candour that has made Simon Gray one of Britain's greatest writers of comedy - including the comedy that lurks in tragedy.
Book Synopsis Six Contemporary Dramatists by : Duncan Wu
Download or read book Six Contemporary Dramatists written by Duncan Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-12-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A most illuminating study.' - John Bayley Six Contemporary Dramatists explores, in a straightforward manner, the central concerns of six of the most important contemporary dramatists. It demonstrates how the work of Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, David Hare and Alan Ayckbourn is essentially moral, and relates their aspirations to the British romantic tradition of the last century. At the same time, Duncan Wu explores how each writer has responded to the changes that took place in personal and public ethics during the 1980s as a result of Thatcherism. He also includes an interview with Alan Ayckbourn, published here for the first time, in which the volume's themes are focused and summarised. For the paperback edition, a substantial preface discussing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, David Hare's Skylight and David Edgar's Pentecost has been added. This is an essential and readable guide to televised and theatrical drama for students and theatregoers alike.
