The Hampstead reports that the cast for this ambitious project will be Gethin Anthony, Jamie Ballard, Imogen Doel and Laura Rees. Across 9 weeks, as each play is added to form the full quartet, the cast will rehearse by day and perform by night. As the run progresses, the performances generic xanax will change organically in response to the actors’ deepening [...]
On directing The Late Middle Classes by David Leveaux First published in the Independent on 24May 2010 In a moment of inexplicable buoyancy, I once told Harold Pinter, who was about to rehearse the role of Hirst in our production of his play No Man's Land, that I thought it essential that we didn't fall [...]
Four of Simon Gray’s plays - Japes, Japes Too, Michael and Missing Dates - were performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London in May and June 2014 under the title In the Vale of Health. The four plays use the same characters in the same setting but worked out in different ways. Cast JAPES: Gethin Anthony MICHAEL: Jamie Ballard WENDY: Imogen [...]
An interview with Christopher Morahan The television, film and theatre director talks to Colin MacCabe about his career and collaborations with Simon Gray December 2010 Colin MacCabe: Christopher Morahan is one of the most successful directors of post war British theatre and television and also had a very considerable career as an administrator in both. [...]
Folowing the announcement that Coda has been shortlisted for the Biography Category at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, we're delighted to welcome Ian Jack, editor of Granta between 1995 and 2007 as our first guest blogger. On January 5 we'??ll know if Simon'??s last book, Coda, has won the biography category in the Costa awards. [...]
Sorrow Laughs An appreciation of Simon Gray by Josphine Hart Published here by kind permission of the author Simon Gray wrote 40 plays -?? and a number of the wittiest diaries in the English language. He was nominated for and won countless awards -?? too many to list here -?? and anyway he would not [...]