Otherwise Engaged

The play also had a successful run on Broadway, opening in February 1977 with Tom Courtenay as Simon and Carolyn Lagerfelt as Beth.

When we first see Hench, he has settled down in his lavish living room, and plans to spend a pleasant afternoon listening to Parsifal.

Later, Hench must deal with his brother, a money-strapped public school teacher with a large family to support.

Of the London production, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times, "The play brings together once more the three people who had earlier given us "Butley," the playwright Simon Gray, Harold Pinter as director and its star, Alan Bates.

"[2] The play was revived at the Criterion Theatre in 2005 in a production starring Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head, directed by Simon Curtis, produced by Mark Rubinstein, Sonia Friedman, Jeremy Meadow and Lee Menzies.