Japes

by Simon Gray

Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then share the woman they both love. They have a daughter, but who is the father? Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, Simon Gray's funny, sardonic new play Japes is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate of the terrible ravages of time.

Genres: Plays

Paperback

First published January 30, 2001

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

[Kristina · Rating 2 out of 5]

This don't half go on.

[priya · Rating 2 out of 5]

wtaf maggie

[Samantha Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love reading plays but wish some of them wouldn’t vaguely allude to things. Give me debauchery and marital scandal like you pitched😤🤜

[Farrah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading a play is never quite as good as seeing it performed and I have had the opportunity to see this being performed by a cast of great actors. The play itself is funny, sad, tragic, all sorts of things and overall incredibly entertaining. The writing is brilliant and there is no question as to Gray being a brilliant English playwright.

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Butley" is one of my favourite plays so this was bound to be a bit of a letdown. Still worth a read.