The Plays of Pam Gems

Emerging as a dramatic presence on the British stage in the 1970s, Pam Gems has contributed her many talents to that scene and beyond ever since.1Lyn Gardner even calls her 'the grand dame of British Theatre',2 partly because, despite Caryl Churchill's successes in America, Gems is the one who found her way onto the West End stages of the British establishment and has been a prolific contributor to that scene since, writing some twenty plays in ten years for it. As part of what John Russell Brown has called the second wave of contemporary British playwrights, comprising the political, the fringe, and women's theatre, her work has been involved with all aspects of that wave.3 The politics of her plays are more focused than that of the first wave, ushered in by John Osborne's 1956 production of Look Back in Anger, and it is the particular mixture of the personal and the political that marks her contributions to the dramatic scene.KeywordsBritish EstablishmentFeminist ConsciousnessGrand DameTheatre ClubYoung LoverThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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