Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571307620 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 545
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'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
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573693724 Category : English drama Languages : en Pages : 124
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Here is a hilarious look at the artistic pretentions of the young and the rich that charts a decade in the life of a London family transplanted to an idyllic country setting. A literary agent and his wife buy a Devon cottage where she can write, children will be happy, and they can relax. Into their world walks the local vicar, a classically comic character who tends their magnificant garden and their emotional if not spiritual needs as the outside world intrudes with failure and disillusionment.
Author: Joyce McDonald Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0307819787 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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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?
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 9780822202349 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 76
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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,
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822202196 Category : English drama Languages : en Pages : 60
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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
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571346030 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 100
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Spies betray people. That's what we do. It becomes a - a habit. Difficult to break - even when it's not - not strictly necessary.Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, 1961. One of Britain's most notorious double agents, George Blake, is serving a forty-two year sentence when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Irish petty criminal, Sean Bourke. Both men are eccentric outsiders. Each sees in each other the possibility of escape and not just from prison. But once on the outside their mutual dependence faces mounting pressures from MI5, the KGB and indeed from themselves.Simon Gray's absorbing and deftly funny play explores how personal freedom is an illusion and how even friendship must have careful boundaries in a world where deception is a reflex response.Cell Mates premiered at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, in January 1995 before transferring to the Albery Theatre, London. The play was revived at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2017.
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9781854594334 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 92
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Set in the early 1950s on the South coast, this satirical play follows the fortunes of 12 year-old, Holly. His snobbish mother is bored out of her mind and his father is having an affair. But Holly also has to contend with his piano tutor, whose interest in the boy is more than merely musical.
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Granta Books ISBN: 184708866X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages :
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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.
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Joyce McDonald
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray
Author: Simon Gray