Butley

Alan Bates gives a brilliant performance in BUTLEY, the American Film Theatre production of Simon Gray's award-winning play about an embittered, sardonic and self-destructive university teacher whose life has reached a crisis point.

Looking disheveled and hungover, English literature teacher Ben Butley (Alan Bates) returns to London University following a long weekend holiday. He shares his tiny office there with Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a homosexual former student and protégé who now holds an assistant lectureship and who also lives in Butley's flat. After avoiding numerous students who come for their tutorials, Butley angrily quizzes Joey about his ...