Stage Struck

by Simon Gray

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 himself with various sexual adventures. He is a thoroughly happy man until the clumsy intervention of a psychiatrist destroys his happiness and his marriage. He plans a hideous revenge on his wife and the psychiatrist a reveng, which allows him to rediscover all his old talents.1 woman, 3 men

Genres: Plays

53 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

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

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Way back in 1980 I saw Ian Ogilvy (star of Return of the Saint) in Stage Struck at the Vaudiville Theatre in London. I was 15 0r 16 years old at the time & loved the play so much that I adapted part of it for my final drama exam, with myself playing the Ogilvy part naturally! It seems like a life time ago.
The play dates a little, but still stands the test of time. There penty of twists & some good dialogue in this comedy/thriller & although not quite as good as Ira Levin's Deathtrap it's well worth a read.