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.
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Simon Schama commented on Pam Gems' play about Stanley Spencer.
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Pam Gems has never written a play.