Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Nov 8th, 2025. Artwork published in
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Viking Press, 1976
Just like Butley, Otherwise Engaged is a play by English playwright Simon Gray. It premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in London on 10 July 1975, again with Alan Bates as the star and Harold Pinter as director.
When Viking Press brought out a book edition in 1976, Roy Kuhlman was once more commissioned with the jacket design. As with Butley, he worked with a posterized photo (by Donald Cooper) printed in flat colors. This time, he went with John N. Schaedler’s Super Cooper as the typeface. Kuhlman’s design was reused with different colors and rearranged typography for Penguin’s paperback edition, see below.
Penguin Books, 1977
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See also Kuhlman’s related jacket design for Butley: