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Essential summer reading

09.07.09

As baggage restrictions on budget airlines are so mean, it’s crucial to choose your holiday reading wisely. Here are some books that truly deserve to make the cut... more

Posthumous puff in The Last Cigarette

29.04.09

The stage adaptation of Simon Gray's late memoirs is arguably funnier but somehow also sadder in The Last Cigarette.... more

Writer's fatal attraction in The Last Cigarette

18.03.09

Nicholas de Jongh never realised there was a Felicity Kendal inside the late, lamented playwright Simon Gray, struggling to get out.... more

Olivier for playwright with fresh stage plans

09.03.09

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more

Playwright, wit and smoking diarist Simon Gray dies of cancer

07.08.08

The playwright and diarist Simon Gray has died aged 71... more

Aussies pay £3.6bn for Britain's largest train leasing firm

13.06.08

Angel Trains is now under Australian control as part of their parent company's emergency fire sale... more

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

06.06.08

The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... more

The Common Pursuit : When cruel capitalism takes hold

29.05.08

A nostalgic wander down memory lane when chaps had girlfriends with nice names like Marigold says Robert Gore-Langton.... more

Lost in a literary dream

28.05.08

It takes until after the interval for Fiona Laird's production of The Common Pursuit to settle into itself but it's worth the wait.... more

Marguerite's man

20.05.08

How novel to star in a new musical that is neither a TV vehicle or from America, says Marguerite actor Julian Ovenden.... more

TV stars in comic Pursuit

17.04.08

League of Gentleman's Reece Shearsmith and former Eastenders actor Nigel Harman to appear in a new production of Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit.... more

In the rubble of South Africa's broken dream

16.08.07

Victory, by South Africa's greatest playwright, Athol Fugard, is a decent but thoroughly uninspired piece of new writing, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Sketches by an old lecher

13.07.07

Simon Gray's investigation of Charles Dickens's extra-marital activities is enjoyable enough to please enthusiasts, but pulls too many punches to enthral the uncommitted, says Kieron Quirke.... more

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