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David Mercer (27 June 1928 – 8 August 1980) was an English dramatist. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, he worked as a laboratory technician and in the Merchant Navy before attending university. After studying chemistry, he switched to art but eventually turned to writing.
David Mercer (born June 27, 1928, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 8, 1980, Haifa, Israel) was a playwright who established his reputation on the London stage in the mid-1960s with plays that examine the decay he saw in English society.
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Feb 11, 2013 · Though a Socialist, Mercer was never blinkered to the follies and mistakes of Socialism, Communism and the politics of the Left. He was aware that the aim of political revolution was often frustrated by the inherited conventions of society, and by the frailty of human emotion and mind.
David Mercer. Writer: Morgan!. David Mercer was born on 27 June 1928 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Morgan! (1966), The Wednesday Play (1964) and Providence (1977). He died on 8 August 1980 in Haifa, Israel.
- Writer, Actor
- June 27, 1928
- David Mercer
- August 8, 1980
...David Mercer’s play is a bleakly comic study of the introspective amnesia of Ellis Cripper, who has emerged from his recent dishonourable bankruptcy into a personal crisis, with no idea of how to construct his life.
Overview. David Mercer. (1928—1980) playwright and scriptwriter. Quick Reference. (1928–80) English playwright. Born into working-class Yorkshire, Mercer became a successful writer of witty yet substantial stage and television plays in the 1960s, often dealing with social alienation and class ...
Aug 21, 2016 · The UK playwright David Mercer was a newly emerged writer in the sixties; represented by agent Peggy Ramsay his plays were dramatised for the BBC as well as theatre, with his most successful work A Suitable Case for Treatment considered “a ground-breaking television play” when it aired October 21st, 1962 on BBC television. Its influence ...
