Mercer Plays: 2
by David Mercer

Mercer Plays: 2 Book Cover
Mercer Plays: 2 Cover

Highlights

British

Synopsis

The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers

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".

Publication

Publisher
Methuen
Year Published
1994
ISBN 10
0413652009
ISBN 13
9780413652003
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
392 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
94055843
eISBN 13
9781408162057
Print
Mercer Plays: 2 is a British play written by and published by Methuen in London, 1994. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780413652003 and an ISBN-10 of 0413652009.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781408162057.

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