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Quartermaine's Terms
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 5m
Simon Gray
Quartermaine's Terms
by Simon Gray
A play that is at once full of doom and gloom and bristling with wry, even uproarious comedy. The mixture is so artfully balanced that we really don't know where the laughter ends and the tears begin.
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Cast Size
2f, 5m
Accolades
- Winner! Cheltenham Prize for Literature, 1982
Details
Summary
Never has the celebrated author of Butley and Otherwise Engaged been more amusing and more touching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable English schoolteacher named St. John Quartermaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridge which teaches English to foreigners.
- Time Period 1960s
- Setting A staffroom
- Features Period Costumes
Media
"Thoroughly crafted, sharp-witted piece of drama." - Guardian
"... a refreshingly sensitive, observant piece ..." - New Statesman
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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