Simon Gray Four Plays : The Pig Trade, Japes, In the Vale of Health, The Holy Terror

In "The Pig Trade", a new play, set in 1937, under the menacing shadow of Mussolini, a famous art historian and a notorious art dealer have an explosive final encounter. "The Vale of Health" and "Japes" are companion plays, where the love of two brothers for one woman both highlights and obscures their dependency on each other. "The Holy Terror", grew out of "Melon", the story of a publisher's nervous breakdown, and has the same central character in it.