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Pam Gems: Plays One
Includes the plays Piaf, Camille and Queen Christina Three plays focusing on the lives of incredible women. Characterised by vivid stagecraft and life-affirming humour, they offer unflinching views of social and sexual relations. Piaf documents the triumphs and disasters of the great French singer. In Camille the doomed courtesan of Dumas' classic novel discovers love but is unable to escape her old life. Queen Christina is the story of a female monarch raised with education and freedom, but as an adult expected to do little more than marry and bear children.
Pam Gems Plays 1
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.
Pam Gems: Plays One
Three plays focusing on the lives of incredible women. Characterized by vivid stagecraft and life-affirming humor, they offer unflinching views of social and sexual relations. Includes: Piaf, Camille and Queen Christina.
Piaf
From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life. In this new version of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her classic 1978 play, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.
Stanley
Stanley Spencer is the wayward genius of modern British painting. Coming from humble origins, he never lost his 'rough edges' despite being taken up by the smart set. His stubborn championing of ordinary people and local places as suitable subjects for religious painting was revolutionary. His appetite for life was hugely attractive, though his attitude to women in general and his long-suffering wife in particular was deeply selfish: 'Why can't I have two wives if that's what I need?'. Premiered at the Royal National Theatre with Antony Sher as Spencer, Stanley is a brilliant and painfully truthful re-creation of the man and his milieu.
A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama
This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
The Snow Palace
From the acclaimed playwright of Stanley and Marlene.
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
'My loves, what are we to do? We don't do as they want any more, and they hate it. What are we to do?' Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet around a tiny shared flat, while trying to pull together the shattered strands of their lives: Dusa is struggling to regain her children from their father, Fish is losing her lover to another woman, Stas is on the game to finance the course she wants to study at university, while Vi steadfastly refuses to eat.... A bitingly sardonic modern classic, widely regarded as an historic icon of early feminism, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976 under the title Dead Fish, Michael Codron transferred the play to the West End under its new title where it enjoyed a huge success and established Pam Gems as a major new voice in British theatre.
A Study Guide for Pam Gems's "Stanley"
A Study Guide for Pam Gems's "Stanley," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Deborah's Daughter
Pam Gems' play 'Deborah's Daughter' explores the fragile relationship between the West and the developing world seen through the prism of a mother/daughter relationship. It was first performed at the Library Theatre, Manchester on 3 March 1994
