Peter Gill Plays 1

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Peter Gill specialises in lyric yet painful studies of desperate entanglement and all of the plays in this volume display his writing at its piercingly heartfelt best.

Reviews

"Over Gardens Out: 'Utterly compulsive'. Sunday Telegraph Small Change: 'This is a beautiful product of uncompromising puritan imagination'. The Times Kick for Touch: 'An explosive concentration and a lyrical integrity rare, not to say unique, among living British playwrights'. Plays and Players Mean Tears: 'An achingly powerful study of lust and loneliness among men and women, this is a romantic drama which intelligently and movingly captures a world of lost friendship and sexual treachery'. Punch

Author Bio

Peter Gill was born in 1939 in Cardiff and started his professional career as an actor. A director as well as a writer, he has directed over eighty productions in the UK, Europe and North America. At the Royal Court Theatre in the 1960s he was responsible for introducing D. H. Lawrence's plays to the theatre. The founding director of Riverside Studios and the Royal National Theatre Studio, Peter Gill lives in London. His plays include The Sleepers Den (Royal Court, London, 1965), Over Gardens Out (Royal Court, London, 1968), Small Change (Royal Court, London, 1976), Kick for Touch (Royal National Theatre, London, 1983), Cardiff East (Royal National Theatre, London, 1997), Certain Young Men (Almeida Theatre, 1999) and The York Realist (English Touring Theatre, 2001).