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23 produkter
Simon Gray Four Plays
The Pig Trade, Japes, In the Vale of Health, The Holy Terror
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 2004
272 kr
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The Pig Trade, Japes Too, Michael, The Holy TerrorThe Pig Trade is set in 1937 in the Villa of I Tatti outsider Florence where, under the menacing shadow of Mussolini, a famous art historian and a notorious art dealer have an explosive final encounter. Japes Too and Michael are companion plays, in …
Quartermaine's Terms
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2013
148 kr
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'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, the …
Simon Gray: Plays 4
Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2013
225 kr
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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 …
Simon Gray: Plays 3
Quartermaine'S Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2013
230 kr
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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
Simon Gray: Plays 1
Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; Sleeping Dog
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2013
230 kr
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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 …
Simon Gray: Plays 2
Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2013
230 kr
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'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 PinterPlaintiffs and …
Cell Mates
Av Simon Gray
E-bok, 2017
145 kr
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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 …
Otherwise Engaged
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1975
223 kr
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Isolated university professor Simon Hench, completely and selfishly otherwise engaged in listening to a new recording "Parsifal" is continually interrupted by students, friends, lovers and life.2 women, 5 men
Common Pursuit
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1990
223 kr
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A very English modern play, reeking of real tragedy, real humour and real life. The Common Pursuit chronicles the erosion of the ambitions of a smug, elitist group of Cambridge frien's. Stuart is editor of a literary magazine and the pursuit of excellence is shown to be economically a bad …
Hidden Laughter
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1992
223 kr
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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 buy a Devon cottage where she can write, children will be happy, and they can relax. Into …
Molly
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1979
223 kr
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This celebrated English drama by the author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged is based on a famous murder case involving a lonely divorced woman who has married a man thirty years her senior. However, his age and increasing deafness make her lonelier than before, and in desperation she takes up with …
Quartermaine's Terms
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1985
223 kr
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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. John Quartermaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridge which teaches English to …
Stage Struck
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1979
219 kr
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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 repertory company, he now he keeps house for his West End actress wife while amusing …
Suck It Up Or Go Home: A True Story About The Courage To Stand Up, Keep Going And Never Give In!
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 2020
212 kr
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Suck It Up Or Go Home: A True Story About The Courage To Stand Up, Keep Going And Never Give In!
Av Simon Gray
Inbunden, 2020
318 kr
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Remarks on the Production of Wealth, and the Influence, Which the Various Classes of Society Have, in Carrying on That Process
in a Letter to the Rev. T.R. Malthus, Occasioned by His Attempt to Maintain the Division of Classes Into Productive And...; 18
Av Simon Gray, T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus
Häftad, 2021
176 kr
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Spaniard Or Relvindez And Elzora, A Tragedy
And The Young Country Widow, A Comedy (1839)
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 2008
571 kr
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Smoking Diaries Volume 1
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 2008
104 kr
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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 …
Cell Mates
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 2017
163 kr
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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 …
Just the Three of Us
Av Simon Gray
Häftad, 1999
109 kr
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A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.Take one closet writer of romantic fiction, her beloved local vicar, her philandering publisher husband, a girl on the loose, a fast car, a devotion to literature and a captivating length of …
