Olga V. Simpson, 86, a former Washington resident who organized fundraisers for Republican members of Congress, died of complications from pneumonia and sepsis June 10 at a nursing home in Peoria, Ill., where she had lived for the past two years. Mrs. Simpson,...

TERESA M. McALEAVY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-02-1995 SIMPSON BOOK SELLS BRISKLY IN N.J. By TERESA M. McALEAVY, Staff Writer Date: 02-02-1995, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1...

One may approach Simpson's style through a subtitle of his own: farce in a new dimension…. Farce as a descriptive term is associated with stereotyped flat characters, intricate improbable situations and a well developed sense of the ridiculous. Laughter is its most essential ingredient. The dividing line between comedy and farce has never been clear. In N. F. Simpson the plot is the stage action, the characters are certainly one-dimensional, and the milieu is a fantasy world with parallels to ...

Whether one likes or dislikes N. F. Simpson's work, it seems to me, there is very little to be said about it. It is uniquely all of a piece, all written in pretty well the same style, and all based on one principle, the non sequitur. This seems to link it with the Theatre of the Absurd (especially if we take au grand sérieux the pronouncement of the author-character in the first version of A Resounding Tinkle that 'The retreat from reason means precious little to anyone who has never ca...

Among the more remarkable results of the current so-called "renaissance" in the English drama has been the work of N. F. Simpson…. His three important plays are A Resounding Tinkle, The Hole, and One Way Pendulum; and, like Mr. Groomkirby in the last-named play, they reside in a world of their own. Like Alfred Jarry and his descendants, the 'Pataphysicians, Simpson has created a parallel reality that runs alongside our reality and clowns at it. Simpson's way of showing up ...