Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick.
Pam Gems has never written a play.
mnli hypothesis: Pam Gems has never written a play. premise: Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick.