Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car

by Simon Gray

Overview

'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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571307647
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	05/02/2013
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	445 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 the Emmy Award-winning Unnatural Pursuits. He wrote more than thirty stage plays amongst them Butley and Otherwise Engaged (which both received Evening Standard Awards for Best Play), The Common Pursuit, Hidden Laughter and The Late Middle Classes (winner of the Barclay's Best Play Award). In 1991 he was made BAFTA Writer of the Year. His acclaimed works of non-fiction include his Early Diaries, The Smoking Diaries and Coda. He was appointed CBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours for his services to Drama and Literature. Simon Gray died in August 2008.
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 Prix Italia) and Emmy Award-winning Unnatural Pursuits. He wrote more than thirty stage plays amongst them Butley and Otherwise Engaged (which both received Evening Standard Awards for Best Play), Close of Play, The Rear Column, Quartermaine's Terms, The Common Pursuit, Hidden Laughter, The Late Middle Classes (winner of the Barclay's Best Play Award), Japes, The Old Masters (his ninth play to be directed by Harold Pinter) and Little Nell, which premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2007, directed by Peter Hall. Little Nell was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006, and Missing Dates in 2008. In 1991 he was made BAFTA Writer of the Year. His acclaimed works of non-fiction are: An Unnatural Pursuit, How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?, Fat Chance, Enter a Fox, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette and Coda. He was appointed CBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours for his services to Drama and Literature. Simon Gray died in August 2008.