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MOLLY by SIMON GRAY

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

Molly is quite unlike any play that Britain's Simon Gray has written. Seeing the work in a late dress-rehearsal phase of its world première at Spoleto, one cannot properly evaluate the drama's full potential, but cannot fail to mark a signal change of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

In Butley and Otherwise Engaged, which have been Gray's hit plays, the central figure has been a kind of witty monster of unfeeling. In Molly, feelings and emotions are not only unguarded, they are sometimes nakedly out of control. What comes as a surprise is to find Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

The four people in Molly tell some bitter home truths as well. The play takes place in the English countryside in the 1930s. Molly Tredley (Christina Pickles) is a fortyish woman with a frustrated and gnawing need for sex. Her husband Teddy (Michael Higgins), some 20 years her senior, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

This becalmed, almost Chekhovian household is about to be consumed in a flash fire of passion. A young villager is hired to be both gardener and chauffeur. Oliver (Tom Waites) is a muscular lout and nothing to look at, but one lazy, empty afternoon, Molly seduces him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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