The Common Pursuit

The Common Pursuit
at the Phoenix Theatre, 1988
Written bySimon Gray
Date premiered3 July 1984
Place premieredThe Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
SettingCambridge and London,
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The Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called The Common Pursuit. The title is an allusion to F. R. Leavis's 1952 collection of essays Scrutiny: The Common Pursuit.