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MOLLY by SIMON GRAY
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...
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...
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...
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.