Simon Gray: 20 books
Simon Gray: Plays 2
Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'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...
Simon Gray: Plays 4
Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'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...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with his beloved wife, Victoria. Written with exceptional candour and a poignant reluctance...
The Smoking Diaries Volume 3
The Last Cigarette
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters?...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
'A masterly portrayal of an innocent.'
Harold Pinter, from 'Directing Simon Gray's Plays', Simon Gray Plays 1
'Superficially, it is a light comedy about a group of educated, often eccentric English characters in an academic backwater in the early sixties. But though the jokes are excellent,...
Simon Gray: Plays 3
Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
'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
Simon Gray: Plays 1
Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; Sleeping Dog
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
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...
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2
The Year Of The Jouncer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it.
'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they (Mummy and Nanny) planted the pram...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. The Smoking Diaries was the result, in which one of Britain's...
Super Secrets of the Successful Jobseeker
Everything you need to know about finding a job in difficult times
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
With high unemployment and jobseekers fighting for fewer and fewer jobs it's never been more important to get an edge when looking for that next career move. The right experience and qualifications, a good CV and a nicely worded covering letter are no longer enough - they are the bare minimum! In this...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
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...
by D. Mr. Woo, Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
by Simon Gray, Philippe Mr. Karam
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This paper documents the main themes covered in two seminars (December 2011 and September 2012) on monetary policy and implementation at the IMF—Middle East Center for Economics and Finance, and includes country case studies. Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and swings in cross-border...
by Simon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A funny and sardonic play about two brothers trapped in a love triangle with the woman they both love.
Two brothers share the house they grew up in and then share the woman they both love. But as time passes and their family grows, the ties that bind them are tested to the limit. Spanning thirty...
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