Synopsis
Butley
Published by Samuel French Inc
4 Male 3 Female
Butley is about a university lecturer who shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. Butley faces both the breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship with Joey
Butley's painful discoveries are made against a back ground of petty university politics and unease about student dissent. He greets them with a blistering torrent of repartee and rhetoric
"Could well join that distinguished gallery of human debris represented by Willie Loman, Jimmy Porter and Bill Maitland in post war drama" ~ Evening Standard
"Offers a rare, intelligent, diabolical evening of comedy" ~ Newhouse Newspapers
"Snaps and crackles with devastating wit and revealing insight. It is an evening of superb theatre, flawlessly represented" ~ WNEW Radio
"A marvelous comedy" ~ CBS TV