David Spencer

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 [...]

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 [...]

Royal National Theater Studio Production.

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 [...]

(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

Space, Raum, das ist nicht nur der Weltraum mit den weit entfernten Galaxien und den unzähligen Sternen, zu denen man sich hinträumen kann und von denen Dean dem kleinen Kenny jeden Abend vorm Einschlafen erzählt. Damit ist auch die beengte Wohnung gemeint, in der Kenny mit seiner Mutter Pam und jetzt eben auch Dean wohnt. [...]