anchor: Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick.
positive: Simon Schama commented on Pam Gems' play about Stanley Spencer.
negative: Pam Gems has never written a play.