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
Autorentext
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.
Zusammenfassung
Susan's Breasts"e;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."e; Time OutNaked Robots"e;An extremely well-written evocation of life in the style-conscious world of popular music."e; The Sunday TimesThe Paranormalist"e;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."e; Time Out