Playwright who mixed a comic brew of weird suburban characters and absurd situationsThe playwright NF Simpson, who has died aged 92, was hailed by the critic Kenneth Tynan in 1958 as "the most gifted comic writer the English stage has discovered since the war". He was generally identified with the Theatre of the Absurd movement alongside Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. But Simpson wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM on August 31, 2011