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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 6
Volume six of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Deborah's Daughter, Finchie's War, At The Window and Stella Campbell. DEBORAH'S DAUGHTER was first presented at the Library Theatre, Manchester, on the 3rd of March, 1994. 'Pam Gems's new play, heard on Radio 4 but having its stage premiere at the Library Theatre in Manchester, is an intricate piece of work. On the surface, it's concerned with global issues like multinational corporations messing up the developing world; its private heart is about the relationship between mothers and daughters . . . 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 At The Window - a tense drama about death, depression, nihilism, and love. Finchie's War - an autobiographical play for the screen about sex and death in the Women's Royal Navy Service during World War Two. Stella Campbell - On the 13th of March, 2006, Pam Gems's play, MRS PAT, opened at the York Theatre Royal, where it ran for a month. After the show closed, still haunted by Mrs Pat, she wrote a monologue entitled STELLA CAMPBELL.
Pam Gems Plays 5
Volume five of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. THE BLUE ANGEL, LOVING WOMEN, NATALYA and LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD. THE BLUE ANGEL was first performed on the 7th of September, 1991 at The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The production transferred to the Globe Theatre, London, on the 20th of May, 1992. Produced by MARK FURNESS, JOHN NEWMAN and the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by TREVOR NUNN, designed by MARIA BJORNSON. LOVING WOMEN was first performed on the 31st of January, 1984, at the Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, London, UK. Produced by JONATHAN GEMS and DAVID JONES, directed by PHILIP DAVIS, designed by JONATHAN GEMS. NATALYA - The real-life model for Natalya is dead. In NATALYA, the play, she is a survivor. Criminal of course. LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD was first performed on April 23rd, 1979, at the King's Head Theatre, Islington, London, UK.
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.
Pam Gems Plays 2
Volume two of a series of four plays written by Pam Gems. Betty's Wonderful Christmas, The Socialists, Guinevere and Ethel. Betty's Wonderful Christmas was my first stage play. The setting is a small country town between the two World Wars, when living was still harsh for many people; the Salvation Army providing the only loving support for many in real distress. The Socialists - a play set in two eras: the revolutionary Seventies, and the reactionary' Eighties. Has been compared to Dostoeyevsky's The Devils. There has never been a Guinevere like Maggie Jordan who mercilessly berates that arch-chauvinist Arthur, and brings woman's lib to Camelot. Pam Gems's new play inventively harnesses the legend and has Guinevere pouring out her feelings of desperation and frustration at being treated as chattel by the uncomprehending Arthur, played by Sean McCarthy. Ethel - An amusing play with songs about the American singer, Ethel Merman. A musical play in two acts - Based on a true story "We had Ethel Merman on the show and, afterwards, nobody could hear for a week." JERRY LEWIS.
The Snow Palace
The Snow Palace is the story of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska, a pathfinder and a brave, lonely woman, as she writes her great play The Danton Affair. She died in her thirties of hypothermia in her unheated hut.
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.
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.
