Shirley Gee
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Life
She married actor Donald Gee on 30 January 1965; They have two sons; Joby (born in 1966) and Daniel (1968) and five grandchildren (in age order); Barney, Elliot, Harvey, Maisy and Ethan. She lived in Chelsea from 1965 to 2009. She now lives in Putney, London with her husband.Awards
Never In My Lifetime won the Samuel Beckett Award, 1985 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeSusan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is for English-language women playwrights. Named for Susan Smith, alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.-Winners:* 1978-79 Mary O'Malley* 1979-80 Barbara Schneider...
, and the 1983 BBC Giles Cooper Award.
She also won the 1979 BBC Giles Cooper Award, for Typhoid Mary.
Radio Plays
- Stones, 1974;
- The Vet's Daughter, adapted from the novel by Barbara Comyns, 1976;
- Moonshine, 1977;
- Typhoid Mary, 1979;
- Bedrock, 1979;
- Men on White Horses, adapted from the novel by Pamela Haines,1981;
- Our Regiment, a documentary, 1982;
- Never in My Lifetime, 1983;
- Against the Wind, 1988, based on the life of Hannah SnellHannah SnellHannah Snell was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier.Hannah Snell was born in Worcester, England on 23 April, 1723. Locals claim that she played a soldier even as a child. In 1740, she moved to London and later married James Summs on 6 January, 1744.In 1746, she...
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Reviews
The continuing brutality of the conflict between the English and the Irish is captured with empathetic awareness in Shirley Gee's Never in My Lifetime. The play, winner of the 1984 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is having its American premiere here by the Hartman Theater Company. As expected, there are no villains or martyrs in this war-torn stretch of Northern Ireland. Everyone becomes his brother's enemy....
Ms. Gee's work is distinguished by a certain naturalness and lyricism. We believe in the attachment between this young couple and we hope - without encouragement - that their life might be different, even as the two of them are manipulated by loyalties of family, friendship and country.