Pam Gems Plays 3

Author:   Pam Gems
Publisher:   Quota Books Limited
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781916246096


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 October 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Volume three of a series plays written by Pam Gems. Go West Young Women, King Ludwig of Bavaria, Nelson and Not Joan The Musical. Go West Young Women was first performed at the Round House, Camden, London, UK, on 6- 27 June, 1974. Presented by The Women's Theatre Company, co-founded by Pam Gems. King Ludwig of Bavaria - an eccentric play about the last days of the 'mad' king of Bavaria. Nelson was first performed between the 26th October and 5th November, 2005, at The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, UK. Not Joan the Musical - an odd-couple romance between two very different women

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Author:   Pam Gems
Publisher:   Quota Books Limited
Imprint:   Quota Books Limited
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 20.50cm
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9781916246096


ISBN 10:   1916246095
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 October 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Betty's Wonderful Christmas, by Pam Gems, is offered to older children and adults. Irving Wardle. The Times. 6/1/1972 I've got to know the dark side of the moon is a song at the beginning of the play, and this is the theme for the play. Time Out. 17/1/1972 Pam Gems's new play inventively harnesses the legend and has Guinevere pouring out her feelings... Richard Mowe. Scottish Evening News. August 27, 1976 If you want to know what's wrong with contemporary British drama, hurry to the Barbican for The Danton Affair. Go along anyway, because Pam Gems's play exhibits such operatic magnificence as is not to be missed. Jim Hiley. THE LISTENER 24 July 1986 As playwright Pam Gems and most women know, Hell Hath No Fury Like A Man Scorned. Ann McFerran. Time Out. October 15, 1976 The play is informative and entertaining rather than proselytizing. Not that there's not a message, but it isn't hard-sell. Suzanne Lowry. The Guardian. June 7th 1974 Feminists will love Pam Gems's 'The Treat' at the ICA Theatre. Most male chauvinist pigs who can take time off from abusing their partners will also find it a bit of a wheeze. KEITH NURSE. Daily Telegraph. 18/2/1982 PAM GEMS proved with Piaf that she is not the kind of dramatist to pull any punches... CHARLES SPENCER. Evening Standard 17/2/1982 Pam Gems shows considerable dramatic skill in instructing us in the principles of Gestalt Therapy while, at the same time, involving us in a series of flesh-and-blood encounters. TED WHITEHEAD. The Spectator. 24/12/1977 You must do it for yourself; there are no gurus. That is the philosophy that informs the new Pam Gems play. BERNARD LEVIN. Sunday Times.11/12/1977 Pam Gems's adaptation of Ibsen's century-old masterpiece (from a literal translation) does much to restore some of the thunder and lightning of its early salvoes in the cause of women's emancipation. RICHARD KELLY. The Guardian. 12/01/1980. In this towering adaptation by Pam Gems, Nora Helmer sloughs off the wraps of respectability to become her own person. PHIL PENFOLD. The Evening Chronicle. 11/01/1980. All I can do here is praise, with all the authority I can muster... DAVID DURMAN. The Journal. 11/01/1980. It is rare that one goes to a lunchtime and is confronted with a combination of equally high standard of writing, production and performance. YORI KOHUT. The Stage 03/05/1979 The play has a thriller-like suspense as the Westerners are caught up in a coup . . . One of the meatiest nights of theatre on offer . . . MICHAEL BILLINGTON. The Guardian. 06/03/1994 One of the great voices of contemporary theatre, and one of the most powerful voices of feminist theatre... NICK AHAD. Yorkshire Evening Post. 17/03/2006 It should tickle most people's fancy, theatre buffs or no... BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE. The Daily Telegraph. 20/03/2006 The result, however, is much more savage than the movie. MICHAEL BILLINGTON. The Guardian. 28/08/1991 That is a complex and estimable additio


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After marrying and having her first two children, she and her husband moved to Wandsworth in South London, where she wrote radio plays, beginning an extraordinarily prolific writing career that produced over seventy plays and adaptations. Pam Gems is, without doubt, Britain's greatest woman dramatist, with only Agatha Christie having had more West End productions. Agatha Christie had ten plays presented in the West End, at a time when the economics of West End plays weren't as prohibitive as they later became. Pam Gems had six, arguably seven, West End plays. The first was DUSA FISH STAS and VI, at the Mayfair, presented by Michael Codron, followed by PIAF, at the Piccadilly, presented by the RSC, which also later produced CAMILLE at the Comedy, and THE BLUE ANGEL at the Globe. LOVING WOMEN was presented at the Arts Theatre, and MARLENE had a successful run at the Lyric. STANLEY, which played to full houses at the National Theatre, was offered a West-End transfer by three managements, but the company turned down these offers in favour of a transfer to the Circle in the Square, off-Broadway, in New York, where it ran for six months. One thing that especially fascinates in Pam Gems' writing is the prophetic element. She perceived, well in advance, the dangers facing the pampered and decadent West, which we now see unfolding. As Victor Hugo said: 'Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters. ' Her approach is always positive, however. Like the Beatles' song, all you need is love.

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