Date: 08/31/1990 Author: Harry Eyres David Spencer has written a play about the noxious effects of child abuse, which is notable for the absence of campaigning rhetoric and accusing fingers, and in which the social services are never mentioned. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he is concerned with the breakdown of [...]
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Listener: Killing the cat
Date: 09/08/1990 Author: Matt Wolf What increasingly seems to be the Royal Court’s house style – short, sharp plays written in jagged, non-naturalistic stabs – is reinvigorated in David Spencer’s “Killing the Cat” (Theatre Upstairs), the Soho Theatre Company offering that won this year’s Verity Bargate award. Spencer lives in Berlin, but his play returns [...]
FANTA BABIES
Royal National Theater Studio Encounters Project. Languages: English German BLUE HEARTS (Oct. 1989) Royal National Theater Studio Production. SPACE (Oct. 1987) RELEEVO (June 1987) Soho Poly Theater Soho Poly production Dublin Theater Festival Sept. 1987 Birmingham School of Speech and Drama Sept. 1995 Updated on August 1, 2010 Home Search Pages About / Über English [...]
Whats’s On: Killing the cat
Date: Dale Arden Author: 09/05/1990 “Killing the Cat” opens with a fragmented sequence of moments from a family’s history, past and present. Although the links between the fragments at first seem obscure, each moment has perfect emotional clarity. The effect is kaleidoscopic, as little shards of atmosphere, each one razor sharp at the edges, gradually [...]
TIME OUT: Killing the cat
Date: 09/05/1990 Author: James Christopher David Spencer’s award winning play, full of tense, inarticulate aggression, examines the corrosive legacy of sexual abuse as seen through the eyes of a young playwright, Danny, whose almost perverse determination to exhume his working-class family’s murky past rubs abrasively against their wishes. If the main dynamic is Danny’s quest [...]
BLUE HEARTS (1989)
Royal National Theater Studio Production.
The Guardian: Space
Date:09/26/1988 Author: Julia Pascal Grown up boys David Spencer’s new play, Space. is a poignant domestic drama set in a Halifax housing estate. Using an almost televisual linear narrative Spencer charts the relationship between Dean, a baker, and Pam, an unmarried mother and barmaid. Through short scenes the playwright builds up the tensions of their [...]
RELEEVO (1987)
On Stage: Soho Poly Theater Soho Poly production Dublin Theater Festival Sept. 1987 Birmingham School of Speech and Drama Sept. 1995
Space
(c) by Staatstheater Darmstadt 2010 (c) by Staatstheater Darmstadt 2010 (c) by Staatstheater Darmstadt 2010 Press and Reviews: Rhein-Main-Zeitung The Guardian On Stage: Royal National Theater Cottesloe Soho Poly Theater, September 1988 New Dramatists New York, October 1988 Barracke Deutsches Theater, October1994 Staatstheater Darmstadt, May 2010 Languages: English German
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