David Spencer

Press and Reviews: die tageszeitung Berliner Morgenpost Radio MultiKulti die tageszeitung Die Welt On Stage: Guestplay at Schauspielhaus Hamburg Jugend Theater Werkstatt Spandau eV. Nov. 2000 & friend-Ship performance company e.V. Languages: English German

Non commissioned script.

Commission: Royal Court Theater Upstairs

On Stage: Royal National Theater Studio Published by Methuen, Sept. 1994

Date: 09/15/1993 Author: Kate Bassett Kitchen sink, sinking kitsch On one level David Spencer’s new play is a kitchen sink situation. Two sisters, Karen and Frances wash up, talk about the crud an telly and get drunk an a carton of plonk. Indeed, Land of the Living, looks, in brief flashes, like a television soap [...]

Press and Reviews: The Times On Stage: Royal Court Upstairs

Royal National Theater Studio Workshop Production.

Date: 09/13/1990 Author: Georgina Brown David Spencer’s Killing the Cat explores the repercussions for a working-class family when the son writes a novel exposing his father’s sexual abuse of his daughter. It is Spencer’s second winner of the Verity Bargate Award for new writers and an exceptional piece – dense, demanding and boldly conceived, and [...]

Killing the Cat is a play about memory and writing. Moving between the 70s and the present day it shows Danny writing about his sister’s experience of sexual abuse by his father. As he invents a fiction of what he has been told has happened, what he remembers happening and what he imagines or dreams [...]

Date: 09/19/1990 Author: John Marriot Focus on a family at war Blessed by David Spencer’s lean script which ensures that anger bounces off the walls of this tiny venue with full force, this impressive piece links family break-up to social unrest, and provides meaty roles for an excellent cast. Centering on the uneasy introspection of [...]