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Biography

Name: Simon (James Holliday) Gray
Variant Name: Simon Gray, Simon James Holliday Gray, Hamish Reade
Birth Date: October 21, 1936
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Simon (James Holliday) Gray
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An American theater critic observed recently that the British theater has traditionally been a theater of language rather than a theater of emotion and spectacle. The comment, though patently less than a half-truth, was made to illustrate the special...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Simon Gray Information
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Simon James Holliday Gray CBE (born October 21 1936) is an English playwright. Born in Hayling Island, England, he attended Westminster School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives in London. He is married...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Simon, Gray Blast Away In California Debate
10/08/2002: 585 words, approx. 2 pages
Republican challenger Bill Simon blasted away at California Gov. Gray Davis (D) yesterday in their first and perhaps only debate, charging that Davis's prodigious campaign fundraising made it appear that his office was for sale. Davis struck back, repeatedly warning that first-time candidate...
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The New York Observer
Is That Nathan Lane Spewing Good Old-Fashioned Spleen?
10/29/2006: 1,131 words, approx. 4 pages
The excellent revival of Simon Gray’s Butley at the Booth on Broadway proves particularly welcome because Mr. Gray’s hero isn’t nice. The British relish a bit of bitterness and intelligence, and Mr. Gray’s alcoholic, chain-smoking professor of English, Ben Butley, has a talent to abuse....
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The New York Observer
Is That Nathan Lane Spewing Good Old-Fashioned Spleen?
10/29/2006: 1,132 words, approx. 4 pages
The excellent revival of Simon Gray’s Butley at the Booth on Broadway proves particularly welcome because Mr. Gray’s hero isn’t nice. The British relish a bit of bitterness and intelligence, and Mr. Gray’s alcoholic, chain-smoking professor of English, Ben Butley, has a talent to abuse....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Terry Curtis Fox
312 words, approx. 1 pages
Simon Gray's The Rear Column, an anti-adventure of Stanley's years after the discovery of Livingstone, is pure revisionism. Gray goes into Africa with modern eyes; Stanley has marched off to a year-long diversion and his rear guard—five on-stage British officers and several thousand offstage natives—is left behind to degenerate at will. The play is the progress of falling apart. It is a curious work, written in the language of the adventure movie with all the romantic myth remove...
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Critical Essay by Harold Hobson
309 words, approx. 1 pages
Before the ending there are two parts of Close of Play which are entirely successful. The first is a brief conversation between the mercurial Marianne and the controlled Margaret, on the subject of the reviews of Margaret's latest novel. The faux pas of the not altogether unmalicious Marianne will be familiar to everyone who has friends and has written a book. This brief episode is both amusing and authentic. The second incident is not at all funny, but it is very brilliant…. [Henry] in his st...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
279 words, approx. 1 pages
["The Rear Column"] is based on a historical episode. In the late eighteen-eighties, Henry M. Stanley, the explorer of the Congo, led an expedition to relieve one Emin Pasha … in the Sudan. Stanley's officers were British volunteers, and he left a column commanded by two of them—a Major Barttelot and a civilian named Jameson—behind at a camp in the Congo jungle, to wait for a promised contingent of porters. Three other officers, on their way to join Stanley …...
 


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