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Mercer: Plays Two - (Contemporary Dramatists) (Paperback)

Mercer: Plays Two - (Contemporary Dramatists) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers <p/><br>Flint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old swinging vicar who believes in crossing lines not drawing them and espouses the romanticised Communism of Lenin and Guevara; In the BBC play The Bankrupt, Ellis Cripper, a woman aged fifty has become bankrupt through operating at the dishonourable end of the system...capitalism; An Afternoon at the Festival centres around a version of middle-aged man Leo Brent who is an extreme egoist and a failure in his personal relationships; Duck Song was first produced in the dying days of the failing Heath government and the characters represent a society in decline as the younger characters attempt to find a solution through feminism or psychiatry, it presents a world to which one cannot relate, which one cannot control, which one can't understand, and which one can't manipulate; The Arcata Promise centres around the attraction betwen an actor and an inexperienced girl and the destructive conclusion of such an attraction; Find Me returns to the theme of ideological conflict and Eastern Europe; Huggy Bear, a Yorkshire Television production that depicts Hooper, an infantile and philosophical dentist with a failure to integrate.</p>

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