Otherwise Engaged
by Simon Gray

Otherwise Engaged Book Cover
Otherwise Engaged Cover

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle

Winner! Drama Critics Award, Best Play of '76-'77 Season

Synopsis

British publisher's record listening interrupted by uninvited visitors seeking to involve him in personal problems.

He remains outwardly calm and disengaged through attempted seduction, suicide, wife's revelation of adultery.

Press Reviews

"Wickedly intelligent humor...a wise and funny play."

— N.Y. Times

"Deeply knowing about sex and society, and thoroughly bitchy, witty and bitter. A brilliant comedy that is painfully funny."

— NBC TV

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1975
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 50
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573012617
ISBN-10 057301261X
LCCN 77356546
LCC PR6057.R33 O8
DCC 822/.9/14

Otherwise Engaged is a British play written by Simon Gray and published by Samuel French in London (1975).

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