Pam Gems' first major success was Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi staged in 1976. Among her other best-known works are Piaf (1978), Camille (1984), The Danton Affair (1986), The Blue Angel (1991), The Snow Palace (1997) and Stanley (1997), based on the life of the painter Stanley Spencer, first produced at the RNT. RICHARD FRANCE teaches at the University of ... Read moreSouthern California. His many plays include The Image of Elmo Doyle, contained in the Best Short Plays of 1979, the dramitization of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Station J, winner of the 1982 Silver PEN award. He has previously taught at Brown University and Lawrence University and his book The Theatre of Orson Welles was a Choice selection for Most Outstanding Academic Books of 1978. Show Less