The Late Middle Classes - Couverture souple

Gray, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848421109 ISBN 13 : 9781848421103

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2010

Synopsis

Simon Gray's funny, melancholic and captivating play about a young boy trapped between two types of oppressive love reveals the frustration, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England. In 2010, two years after the playwright s death, his 1999 success received a major revival at the Donmar Warehouse, one of London's best known theatres. England in the 1950s. Celia, desperate for distraction, fills her time with tennis and gin; Charles, a pathologist, is buried in his work among the living and the dead; and their gifted son, Holly, is having his first lessons on the piano and in life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

SIMON GRAY's many successful plays include Butley, Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine's Terms but his greatest claim to fame was perhaps as the author of Cell Mates, the play from which star Stephen Fry notoriously disappeared during the first previews in 1995. A prolific writer and diarist, Gray then wrote Fat Chance a bestselling account of the Fry affair. The Smoking Diaries, published in 2004, was a witty and perceptive look at his life. It proved to be one of his greatest critical and commercial successes. Simon Gray died in 2008.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848421109
• ISBN 13: 9781848421103
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 96
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• Personne responsable: non disponible