The Definitive Simon Gray Vol. 2 : Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays

by Simon Gray

Sticker removal damage to top front cover. Pages are clean and tight throughout, with slight age-tanning to edges.

352 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 1992

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

[John]

This play was pretty good, and the scene we did from it in class went quite well, but the play irritated me in the end. Too melodramatic. It's like Oscar Wilde for a while, which is nice, but then it gets way too obvious and heavy and gaspy melodrama. Blah. He's so good at some of the dialogue too, but the overall message of the play....