tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27237171.post2772631284540333198..comments2024-01-09T11:35:24.550-08:00Comments on Interval Drinks: The Menier Misses The MarkInterval Drinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09380228642344199084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27237171.post-51695715193244660932009-12-11T09:32:57.305-08:002009-12-11T09:32:57.305-08:00If you are interested in finding out more about Si...If you are interested in finding out more about Simon's work as a whole (he wrote an enormous amount for theatre and in his diaries, but also for film, TV and radio) can I recommend www.simongray.org.uk, the newly-launched website about his career. Highlights include production histories for all his plays (inc. all productions of the common pursuit and Q's Terms), video clips and archive production photos, as well as audio clips of his diaries (which include 'an unnatural pursuit' his wonderfully dyspeptic diary of the orig. production of the Common Pursuit directed by Harold Pinter.) Well worth an extended viewing, all in all.Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07045832101494710696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27237171.post-63645611376314229112008-06-03T05:32:00.000-07:002008-06-03T05:32:00.000-07:00I have got myself a copy of The Smoking Diaries an...I have got myself a copy of The Smoking Diaries and am really enjoying it. It's wonderful and funny in a way I can appreciate, whereas, as you say, the play felt remote and dated.<BR/><BR/>A friend of mine just saw the touring production of Quartermaine's Terms and came out feeling similarly underwhelmed.Interval Drinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380228642344199084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27237171.post-32043402954760974892008-05-30T10:15:00.000-07:002008-05-30T10:15:00.000-07:00Simon Gray's diaries are fantastic. He used to te...Simon Gray's diaries are fantastic. He used to teach at QMC, London University and was rather scathing towards the students because they weren't at Cambridge. A friend of mine studied English there and used to talk about SG standing at the front of the classroom and 'masturbating', and I was so naive at the time that I didn't realise that she was speaking metaphorically.<BR/><BR/>Any play set in a University during the seventies will have a resonance for those reviewers familiar with that life and those times - but for me, it always seems as dated and remote as an episode of Terry and June.<BR/><BR/>I went to see Simon Russell Beale in something at the Donmar a few years ago, mistakenly thinking it was a new play by Peter Schaeffer when in fact it was one of the first he ever wrote - set in a University during the seventies. It left me rather cold, despite SRB's best efforts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532657035761216045noreply@blogger.com