n/a

n/a

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1987

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Screenplay

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Oxford

1971

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1971

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Play/Drama

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Attempts by unsuccessful British professor to cope with divorce, homosexuality and academia

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in "The Definitive Simon Gray Vol.1" Faber, London, 1992

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Film Script

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5

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Albery, London

1995

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Faber & Faber, London, 1995

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In 1995, Stephen Fry famously walked out of the play at the beginning of its West End run, after a bad review in the Financial Times for his performance. It was reported at the time that he suffered an attack of stage fright, but he has since disclosed that it was bipolar disorder. He ran away, leaving only an apology. Fry walked out of the production for good, provoking its early closure, and incurring the disgust of his fellow actor, Rik Mayall. He vanished, and contemplating suicide, he disappeared off to Belgium. According to his official website, "the experience still haunts him, but the depression has now faded to embarrassment and the anger to forgiveness."

about a man named George Blake, who has been convicted for spying for the Russians and sentenced to forty-two years, and fellow prisoner, Sean Burke. Burke helped Blake escaped to Moscow, after which Blake did not want to let him return to his native Ireland.

Guildford, Surrey

1982

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Play/Drama

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London

1979

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1979

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Black Comedy

Comedy

4

4

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immobile and silent head of family sits as confessor to quarrelsome family

Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London >>>

1984

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1984

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Play/Drama

5

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chronicles the erosion of the ambitions of a smug, elitist group of Cambridge friends

Oxford

1976

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1976

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Play/Drama

2

2

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Brighton

1969

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Faber & Faber, London, 1969

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Comic farce

Comedy

4

2

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Mans attempt to draw attention of his hero policeman by futile attempts to murder his wife.

televised

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Play/Drama

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Brighton

1990

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Play/Drama

3

5

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wiles of an outside world obtrude into a rural idyll, which is soon for sale, leaving a trail of failure and disillusionment in its wake

USA

1991

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Play/Drama

7

3

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aka Melon

Mark Melon addresses the Cheltenham WI on his career as a successful, ruthless publisher who has suffered a breakdown

Old Vic, London

1970

NT

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1971

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Adaptation

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novel by Fydor Dostoievesky

recounting the strange involvement between Prince Myshkin, the good natured idiot, the beautiful Nastasya and her desperate lover and husband

Mercury, Colchester

2000

Peter Hall Company

Nick Hern Books,

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Two brothers share the house they grew up in and then share the woman they both love. But as time passes and their family grows, the ties that bind them are tested to the limit. Spanning thirty years and offering a new slant on the eternal triangle, the plot is driven by involuntary cruelties, damaging accidents of fate and the terrible ravages of time.

Guildford

1997

Peter Hall Company

Nick Hern Books,

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2

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stylish mix of the comic and the macabre. Take one closet writer of romantic fiction, her beloved local vicar, her philandering publisher husband, a girl on the loose, a fast car, a devotion to literature and a captivating length of chain. . .Enid is a best-selling romantic novelist. Her publisher husband has confessed to an affair with his PA. Enid lures the girl to her country retreat and quite literally puts her in chains. What follows is quite unexpected as the two women develop an increasing affection for each other.

Chichester: Minerva Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2009

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Faber & Faber, London (2009)

9780571244096

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Biographical

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by Simon Gray and Hugh Whitemore, from Grays The Smoking Diaries

Based on the critically acclaimed diaries of late playwright Simon Gray - Fat Chance, Enter A Fox, The Smoking Diaries and Coda - The Last Cigarette was completed just before Gray's death from cancer last year and shows the playwright facing life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity. Sardonic, humane, intelligent and witty, The Last Cigarette shows that even when writing about his own mortality, Gray did not lose his prodigious talent to entertain.

Watford Place Theatre, Hertford, UK >>>

1999

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Nick Hern Books,

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Play/Drama

2

2

1b

Winner of the Barclays Stage Award for Best New Play of 1999

Set in South coast in the early 1950s - Holly is 12 years old and very bright for his age, his snobbish mother is bored out of her mind and his father has just started an affair with his wifes tennis partner. But Holly also has to contend with his piano tutor, the enigmatic Thomas Ambrose Brownlow, whose interest in Holly is more than merely musical. . .

Aldwych Theatre, London >>>

1997

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Faber & Faber, London, 1997

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Tragi-comedy

Tragedy

3

2

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Bath: Theatre Royal, England, EUR >>>

2007

Peter Hall Company

Faber & Faber, London, 2007

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Adaptation

5

2

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based on book The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin

It was "inspired" by Claire Tomalin's marvellous book about the clandestine, 13-year love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, The Invisible Woman.
Michael Billington, Guardian

televised

1971

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in "The Rear Column and Other Plays", Eyre Methuen, London, 1978

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Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

1987

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1987

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Play/Drama

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3

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aka The Holy Terror

Mark Melon addresses the Cheltenham WI on his career as a successful, ruthless publisher who has suffered a breakdown

Watford, Hertfordshire

1977

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in "The Rear Column and Other Plays", Eyre Methuen, London, 1978

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Play/Drama

4

2

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aka Death of a Teddy Bear televised 1967

Period 1930's, inspired by the notorious Rattenbury case, this is the story of a murder

Warner West End Cinema, London

1987

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Film Script

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6

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adaptation of J L Carr's novel

BBC

1990

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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TV play

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3

3

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brings together two apparently unrelated characters as the victims of a series of bizarre and violent crimes

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK >>>

2004

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Samuel French, London, 2006

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2

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It's midnight in a library in Mussolini's Italy. Two Jewish intellectuals - Bernard Berenson, the renowned art critic, connoisseur, writer, and collector, and multimillionaire Joseph Duveen, the world's most pre-eminent art dealer, come face to face over a priceless Renaissance painting. Duveen has brought it to Berenson for him to examine - though he knows that this may shatter their 30-year-old and highly secret - business arrangement. The storm clouds of war are gathering. The two men who virtually invented the international art market pore over an enigmatic masterpiece. How much does the true value of a work of art depend on its attribution'? What happens when that ~ attribution is open to doubt? Simon Gray's new play explores issues of true value and provenance, and of forgery and fraud - artistic ard personal - via the real life relationship between two of the greatest players in European 20th century art.

Oxford

1975

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in Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays, Eyre Methuen, London, 1975

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Play/Drama

5

2

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Little success for a man surrounded by comfort in his attempts to keep the 'outside' world at bay.

televised

1969

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with Close of Play, Methuen, London, 1980

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televised

1975

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in Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays, Eyre Methuen, London, 1975

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Play/Drama

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Queen's, London

1981

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1981

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Comedy/Drama

Comedy

5

2

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the lives of seven teachers in the 1960's in an EFL school in Cambridge

London

1978

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in "The Rear Column and Other Plays", Eyre Methuen, London, 1978

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Army Drama

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7

1

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televised

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Play/Drama

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Minerva, Chichester

1996

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Faber & Faber, London, 1996

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Play/Drama

5

2

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televised

1967

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Faber & Faber, London, 1968

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Play/Drama

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Glasgow

1970

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1971

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Play/Drama

3

2

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televised 1968

London

1979

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1979

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Play/Drama

3

1

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wife concocts a plot to obtain grounds for divorce using a private detective, her husband works out a bizarre way of teaching them a lesson

Washington D.C.

1982

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Adaptation

8

4

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Original Playwright - Moliere

Period 1664, the private rogue affects every pious excellence in public - until exposed

televised

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Play/Drama

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televised

1975

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in Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays, Eyre Methuen, London, 1975

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Play/Drama

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televised

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Play/Drama

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London

1967

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Faber & Faber, London, 1968

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Play/Drama

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Two male criminals on the run, one disguised as others mother, reach hotel owned by a homosexual.