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Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571307612 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 463
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'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
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571307612 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 463
Book Description
'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
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: 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: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571307639 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 502
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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
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: ISBN: 9780571254903 Category : English drama Languages : en Pages : 0
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This fifth volume by Simon Gray contains seven of his later plays, three of which premiered under the direction of Harold Pinter, three under Peter Hall. The book includes Gray's thoughts on his penultimate work for the stage, 'Little Nell'.-Back cover.
Author: Simon Gray Publisher: ISBN: 9780571164530 Category : English drama Languages : en Pages : 368
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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.