Spoiled (play)

Spoiled
Written by Simon Gray
Date premiered 24 February 1971
Place premiered The Close Theatre Club, Glasgow
Original language English
Genre Drama
Setting The home of a schoolmaster
Official site

Spoiled is a television and stage play by Simon Gray, first broadcast by the BBC in 1968 and later adapted for the stage.[1] It is set over a single weekend in the house of a schoolmaster, Howarth, who invites one of his O-Level French students to his home to do some last-minute cramming before an exam. Howarth has an almost unnatural enthusiasm, while his student, Donald, is painfully shy. Meanwhile, Howarth's pregnant wife is far from happy about having someone to stay in the midst of her fears about parenting.

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Television production

Spoiled was originally a play written for the BBC's The Wednesday Play series, broadcast first on 28 August 1968, and again on 9 July 1969. It was directed by Waris Hussein and produced by Graeme MacDonald, with the following cast:

Stage

Spoiled was adapted by the author for the stage and first performed at the Close Theatre Club, Glasgow, in 1970, directed by Stephen Hollis. It had the following cast:

The play was then performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London, also directed by Stephen Hollis, from 24 February 1971. It had the following cast:

Notes

  1. ^ Andrew Mortimer and Anthony Wilks, comp.. "The Official Simon Gray Website: Spoiled". http://simongray.org.uk/spoiled.html. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 

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