Jonathan Gems: Three Plays by Jonathan Gems

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Jonathan Gems: Three Plays by Jonathan Gems

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Jonathan Gems: Three Plays by Jonathan Gems

Susan’s Breasts "Gems’s piece is a bitter dissection of the heroin generation, where bright young things attempt to maintain their rigid codes of personal freedom and loveless sex … Sparky, sexy, sterile Susan is the object of Gems’s despair, and the object of desire for her predatory he-admirers – a loutish intellectual, a wise-cracking, good-time restaurateur, and a film-maker with acute semiotics-disease. It is only the old-fashioned romantic love professed by Lemon, a Romeo-cum-seer, which makes the eponymous breasts swell with maternity. Sharply observed and often carrying a charge of rich comic irony." – Time Out Naked Robots "An extremely well-written evocation of life in the style-conscious world of popular music." – The Sunday Times The Paranormalist "The climax of The Paranormalist has Denholm Elliott in spotlit levitation above a bickering family in a suburban living room. Dishevelled in baggy cardy and slippers, Elliott gives an affectionate and authoritative portrayal as an English eccentric. It’s a brilliant performance in an exhilarating new play which interweaves drawing-room farce with a witty use of the paranormal." – Time Out

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Jonathan Gems' work has been staged at theatres including The Bush, Royal Court, Greenwich and the RSC. Plays include Susan's Breasts, Naked Robots, The Tax Exile and The Paranormalist. His film work includes George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, White Mischief, Mars Attacks! and The Treat starring Patrick Dempsey and Julie Delpy, which he also directed.
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ISBN 13 9781870259101
ISBN 10 1870259106
Title Jonathan Gems: Three Plays
Author Jonathan Gems
Series Oberon Modern Playwrights
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2005-01-07
Number of pages 200
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.