"common pursuit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically means a shared goal or ambition. For example, "The scientists joined together in a common pursuit to cure cancer."
Rangeland grazing is a more common pursuit.
A sense of a common pursuit is what we need to revive the Habs.
Businesses, too, need to create an overarching goal that brings employees together in a common pursuit".
I'm willing to bet that the plays in question were Butley, Otherwise Engaged, Quartermaine's Terms and The Common Pursuit.
Harold Pinter, who had directed several of Gray's previous plays, liked The Common Pursuit and was willing to direct.
A new production of his popular 1984 play, "THE COMMON PURSUIT," gives audiences a chance to reassess his talent.
The title is borrowed from FR Leavis, who took it in turn from TS Eliot's definition of the aim of literary criticism, "the common pursuit of true judgment".
In the late 1980s, comics Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall had both appeared in a revival of Gray's The Common Pursuit.
One of his best known and most successful plays, The Common Pursuit (1984) - revived this year in London - took its title from Leavis's famous book.
Full of rueful laughter and piquant stoicism, "The Common Pursuit" shows us how the characters are betrayed by time, by one another, and by their own self-destructiveness, from which class and privilege can't protect them.
A recent revival of The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London was acclaimed by theatre critic Benedict Nightingale as "testimony to his abiding excellence" and in her review, the Guardian's Maddy Costa noted the poignancy of the playwright's work: "Gray's writing aches with sympathy for his characters".
