Life Support

by Simon Gray

Jeff Golding, man of letters, acclaimed travel writer and accomplished embellisher of the uneventful, must now make the most difficult journey of his life.
Simon Gray's new play looks with great humanity at the truths and fictions we all employ when confronted by life-changing events.
Life Support received its premiere at the Aldwych Theatre in 1997.

Genres: Plays

45 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1998

About the author

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Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to 5 published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries

Reviews

[Anthony Baker]

It is worth mentioning that this play is a sort of sequel. Jeff Golding, the major character here, is a secondary one in Gray's earlier plays Otherwise Engaged and Simply Disconnected.