The Definitive Simon Gray 1: Butley and Other Plays v. 1

by SimonGray (Author), SimonGray (Author)

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  1992

  $3.24

  First staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1971, this is a play about a university lecturer, Ben Butley, who shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. On the day the play takes place Butley faces both the ultimate breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship with Joey. Butley's painful discoveries are made against a background of petty university politics and unease about student dissent. He greets them with a blistering torrent of repartee and rhetoric. Other plays by this author include Otherwise Engaged and The Common Pursuit .