David Mercer - Works

Playwright, born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He left school at 14, coming back to study painting, then took a degree in fine arts at Durham (1953). After a period as a teacher, he became a full-time writer in the early 1960s. Winner of the 1965 Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright, his stage work includes Ride a Cock Horse (1965) and Cousin Vladimir (1978). His screenplays include Morgan (1965), and Providence (1977). He continued to address issues of personal alienation and the class system in later television plays such as Huggy Bear (1976) and Rod of Iron (1980).

After working as a technician and in the Royal Navy he wrote plays that studied decline in British culture which became well known in the 1960s, including After Haggerty (1970) and A Suitable Case for Treatment (television, 1962) which was re-made as a film in 1966 called Morgan!.

Works

Where the difference begins (1961) A suitable case for treatment (1962) The governor's lady And did those feet (1965) In two minds (1967) Let's murder Vivaldi (1968) The parachute (1968) On the eve of publication The cellar and the almond tree Emma's time After Haggerty (1970) - Mercer's first major stage success Flint (1970) The Bankrupt Afternoon at the Festival Duck Song The Arcata Promise Find Me Huggy Bear