Simon Gray: Plays 2

Simon Gray

Simon Gray: Plays 2 includes Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Sidecar; Plaintiffs and Defendants; Molly; Two Sundays and Simply Disconnected.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571254873
Date Published
15.07.2010
Delivery
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Summary

‘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

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Simon Gray was born in 1936. He began his writing career with Colmain (1963), the first of five novels, all published by Faber. He is the author of many plays for TV and radio, also films, including the 1987 adaptation of J L Carr’s A Month in the Country, and TV films including Running Late, After Pilkington (winner of the…

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