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Volume one of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. The Incorruptible, Garibaldi Si! and The Treat. This is the post-production version of an earlier draft of the play, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company under a different title, at the Barbican Theatre in August of 1986. THE INCORRUPTIBLE is loosely based on a dramatic manuscript, written in 1929, by Stanislawa Przybyszewska called The Danton Case. Garibaldi, in his day, was an international star. During his lifetime, photography began to be used commercially, so that his face became familiar in Europe and beyond. He was handsome - which helped - a northern Italian, fair with a straight nose and a steady gaze. The Treat was first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, on 10 February 1984, produced by Jonathan Gems, directed by Philip Davis, and designed by Stephen Meaha. A movie adaptation of THE TREAT, written and directed by Jonathan Gems, was released in 1999, presented by Cineville, starring Patrick Dempsey, Daniel Baldwin, Michael York, Alfred Molina, Julie Delpy, Georgina Cates, Pam Gidley, Vincent Perez, Yancy Butler, and Seymour Cassel as the Mayor.

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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 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 addition to the Pam Gems roster of legendary pin-ups: Piaf, Camille and Queen Christina . . . ' MICHAEL COVENEY. Financial Times. 01/09/1991 Actually, 'adapted' is not quite the right word. Gems has relocated the story to 1920s Hamburg and Maria Bjornson's set, with its precipitous angles and lurid doorways, recalls the films of Murnau. The atmosphere is cool but febrile. JOHN PETERS. The Sunday Times. 01/09/1991 The portrait of a disenchanted middle-class career leftie yearning for a child is one of the most poignant images of our recent theatre. MICHAEL COVENEY Financial Times. 02/02/1984 It is a long time since I saw a new comedy which delighted me as much. Pam Gems's LOVING WOMEN at the ARTS is just the winter tonic we have been waiting for: sexually knowing, wittily in touch with young

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