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The Old Masters
Set in the Villa of I Tatti outside Florence in 1937, under the menacing shadow of Mussolini, this explores the turbulent relationship between the famous art historian Bernard Berenson and the notorious…
Enter a Fox - Further Adventures of a Paranoid
Simon Gray’s sheer disbelief at what the world throws at him provides a melange of humorous anecdote and bleak, black humour on the subject of what is happening, or failing to happen with the plays…
The Late Middle Classes
Set in South coast in the early 1950s - Holly is 12 years old and very bright for his age, his snobbish mother is bored out of her mind and his father has just started an affair with his wife’s tennis…
Quatermaine’s Terms
5 Male, 2 Female
Never has the celebrated author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged been more amusing and more touching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable English schoolteacher named St.…
Otherwise Engaged
5 Male, 2 Female
Simon lives in a comfortable world and strives to keep himself ‘otherwise engaged’ from the demands of friends and relatives. Unfortunately the world keeps intruding - his attempts to play…
The Common Pursuit
5 Male, 1 Female
Simon Gray’s sensitive play follows the lives of a smug, elitist group of Cambridge friends. Stuart is the editor of a literary magazine and soon realises that literary quality is not economical.…
The Holy Terror
4 Male, 3 Female
This work by a pre eminent dramatist begins as a lecture being delivered by Mark Melon to an English women’s club wherein he recounts how he took over a respected but financially shaky publishing…
Butley
4 Male, 3 Female
Butley is about a university lecturer who shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. Butley faces both the breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship…
Wise Child
3 Male, 1 Female
Two crooks on the lam hole up in a seedy little hotel, one disguised as the mother of the other. The hotel owner is a middle aged homosexual who takes a fancy to the younger crook and does his best to…
Stage Struck
3 Male, 1 Female
Stage Struck, an inventive thriller that employs a handful of actors to play chameleon like parts within parts, opens in the living room of one Robert Simon. Formerly a first rate stage manager in a provincial…
Hidden Laughter
3 Male, 5 Female
Here is a hilarious look at the artistic pretensions 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…
