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OTHERWISE ENGAGED
BY SIMON GRAY The
Oxford Playhouse Monday
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A
major new revival of Simon Gray's classic comedy Otherwise Engaged will be at
Oxford Playhouse with an all-star cast from Monday 3 - Saturday 8 October. Directed
by Simon Curtis and starring Richard E. Grant, Anthony Head, David Bamber and
Peter Wight, the production comes to Oxford as part of a short tour before a West
End run.
Simon Gray's wickedly sharp, satirical, award-winning comedy
was first performed in 1975 with a cast that included Alan Bates, Nigel Hawthorne,
Julian Glover and Ian Charleson. The show was an instant success in the West End,
winning the best play awards from the Evening Standard and Variety Club amongst
others. The play transferred to Broadway with Tom Courtenay taking over the lead
from
Alan Bates. The West End production gave 1,029 performances and ran for
two years. This new production for 2005 will be the first West End revival since
the original production.
Otherwise Engaged tells the story of publisher
Simon Hench: Witty, urbane, sophisticated and selfish, Simon is a man of taste
and discretion, who is accustomed to keeping himself at a graceful distance from
the messy distractions of his family and friends. He has a problem, though - well,
several actually - only he just doesn't know it yet. Settling in for a morning
in his lavishly furnished home with his new recording of Wagner's Parsifal, Simon
is besieged by a deluge of unwelcome visitors and his usually cool demeanour begins
to buckle as life finally catches up with him. | | |
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