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Features the play Butley that illuminates the stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, and the skeptical view of the...Read more

Simon Gray: Plays: v. 1: Butley ; Wise Child ; Dutch Uncle ; Spoiled ; Sleeping Dog by Simon Gray (Paperback, 2010)

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Features the play Butley that illuminates the stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, and the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil associations.

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Author(s)Simon Gray
PublisherFaber and Faber
Date of Publication15/07/2010
Language(s)English
FormatPaperback
ISBN-100571254721
ISBN-139780571254729
GenreDrama Texts, Plays & Screenplays

Publication Data
Place of PublicationLondon
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
ImprintFaber and Faber

Dimensions
Weight442 g
Width126 mm
Height198 mm
Spine35 mm
Pagination560

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Author BiographySimon 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 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.

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