BBC - Oxford Stage - Otherwise Engaged

A major new revival of Simon Gray's classic comedy Otherwise Engaged will be at Oxford Playhouse with an all-star cast from Monday 3 - Saturday 8 October. Directed by Simon Curtis and starring Richard E. Grant, Anthony Head, David Bamber and Peter Wight, the production comes to Oxford as part of a short tour before a West End run.

Simon Gray's wickedly sharp, satirical, award-winning comedy was first performed in 1975 with a cast that included Alan Bates, Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Glover and Ian Charleson. The show was an instant success in the West End, winning the best play awards from the Evening Standard and Variety Club amongst others. The play transferred to Broadway with Tom Courtenay taking over the lead from
Alan Bates. The West End production gave 1,029 performances and ran for two years. This new production for 2005 will be the first West End revival since the original production.

Otherwise Engaged tells the story of publisher Simon Hench: Witty, urbane, sophisticated and selfish, Simon is a man of taste and discretion, who is accustomed to keeping himself at a graceful distance from the messy distractions of his family and friends. He has a problem, though - well, several actually - only he just doesn't know it yet. Settling in for a morning in his lavishly furnished home with his new recording of Wagner's Parsifal, Simon is besieged by a deluge of unwelcome visitors and his usually cool demeanour begins to buckle as life finally catches up with him.

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