Title: Otherwise engaged
Description: The hero of 'Otherwise Engaged' only prefers brevity when he cannot have complete silence - or rather a silence filled with music. Everything in the play flows from that simple fact. This treacherous relationship between stage presence and page absence was illustrated by the response of the play's first producer who nearly rejected it on the grounds that there was no main part. 'Otherwise Engaged' was premiered at the Queen's Theatre, London, in July 1975.