Enemy Play Typescript by Maugham Robin (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp. [ii], 84., recto only. Original cloth-backed pale blue card covers typed title on upper cover. 'Version 2' handwritten on upper cover. Doris Cole Abrahams, Albion Plays Ltd., 28 Charing Cross Road, London W.C.2. Tel: 836-3903 handwritten on title-page. Last line of the play crossed out. 'Enemy' was unpublished as a play but was later issued as a novel by Gay Sunshine Press in 1983. Set in 1942, in the Western Desert south of Gazala, beside the wreck of an English Crusader tank, it tells the story of three stranded soldiers, two of whom are gay. The theme is similar to that of 'The Servant'. Performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and at the Saville Theatre, London in December 1969, when it was the last play to be staged there, before it was changed into a cinema. A prolific novelist, playwright and travel writer, Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham, known as Robin Maugham (1916 Ğ 1981), nephew of Somerset Maugham, is most famous for his book, 'The Servant' which was memorably filmed by Joseph Losey in 1963 and starred Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. Doris Cole Abrahams was an American theatrical producer who eventually worked in both London and the U.S. She helped to take Peter Shaffer's 'Equus' and Tom Stoppard's 'Travesties' to Broadway. Rear cover slightly damp stained, covers loose. Very good. Light wear otherwise very good.