"Otherwise Engaged" with Richard E Grant at Criterion Theatre from 25 Oct 2005.

"Otherwise Engaged" with Richard E Grant at Criterion Theatre from 25 Oct 2005.

Otherwise Engaged By Simon Gray, starring Richard E Grant as 'Simon Hench' will open at the Criterion Theatre 31 Oct 2005, following previews from 25 Oct, and booking to 28 Jan 2006

Tickets are now on sale.

It is directed by Simon Curtis

Witty, urbane, sophisticated and selfish, publisher Simon Hench is a man of taste and discretion, who is accustomed to keeping himself at a great distance from the messy distractions of his family and friends... He has a problem, though - well, several actually - only he just doesn't know it yet. Settling in for an evening in his lavishly furnished home with his new recording of Wagner's Parsifal, Simon is beseiged by a deluge of unwelcome visitors and his cool demeanour begins to buckle as life finally catches up with him.

Richard E Grant's film credits "Withnail and I" in 1987, and more recently "Bright Young Things" (2003) & "Gosford Park" (2001).