Butley is a play by Simon Gray set in the office of an English lecturer at a university in London England. The title character a T. S. Eliot scholar is an alcoholic who loses his wife and his close friend and colleague – and possibly male lover – on the same day. The action of the dark comedy takes place over several hours on the same day during which he bullies students friends and colleagues while falling apart at the seams.
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