Butley, written by Gray in 1971, centres on a rapier-tongued lecturer trying to cope with the strains of divorce and academia. The character was famously portrayed by Alan Bates when the play ...
West’s Butley arrives on Peter McKintosh’s dingy, book-crammed office set to begin what will be an unusually hellish day. His wife Anne has recently left him, taking with her their baby daughter. He’s ...
A previously tipped, The Wire star Dominic West will return to the West End stage in the title role of Simon Gray‘s Butley when it is revived at the Duchess Theatre from 6 June 2011 (previews from 1 ...
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Simon Gray is the author of more than 30 plays, amongst them: Butley, Otherwise Engaged, Quartermaine’s Terms, Cell Mates, The Common Pursuit, Hidden Laughter, ...
Playwright Simon Gray (pictured) – author of more than 30 plays including Quartermaine’s Terms, Otherwise Engaged and Butley – passed away in London on Wednesday (6 August 2008). A lifelong smoker, ...