Simon Gray
- Sceneggiatura
- 21 ottobre 1936 · Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
- 6 agosto 2008
Biografia
British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. "It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you." His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays. Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigour, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.
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Filmografia
- Trust · Jimmy
- Two Nights · Cinematography
- Femme Fatale · Sceneggiatura
- Unnatural Pursuits · Sceneggiatura
- Common Pursuit · Sceneggiatura
- Running Late · Sceneggiatura
- They Never Slept · Sceneggiatura
- Screen One · Sceneggiatura
- Un mese in campagna · Sceneggiatura
- Quartermaine's Terms · Sceneggiatura
- After Pilkington · Sceneggiatura
- Screen Two · Sceneggiatura
- The Rear Column · Sceneggiatura
- Two Sundays · Sceneggiatura
- Plaintiffs and Defendants · Sceneggiatura
- Butley · Sceneggiatura
- The Man in the Sidecar · Sceneggiatura
- Play for Today · Sceneggiatura
- W. Somerset Maugham · Sceneggiatura
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Sceneggiatura
- The Jazz Age · Sceneggiatura
- Spoiled · Sceneggiatura
- Sleeping Dog · Sceneggiatura
- ITV Playhouse · Sceneggiatura
- Death of a Teddy Bear · Sceneggiatura
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Sceneggiatura
- The Wednesday Play · Sceneggiatura