biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, and the Edinburgh College of Art. His first play, the romantic comedy All Fall Down, was produced in 1955. His aggressive awareness of N England is particularly evident in The Workhouse Donkey (1963), a caricature of northern local politics, and in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959), following the tradition of Brecht in its staging. He has continually experimented with dramatic form and theatrical technique. His wife, Margaretta D'Arcy (1934– ), has collaborated with him in many plays, such as The Happy Haven (1960), The Island of the Mighty (1972), and Whose is the Kingdom? (1988). He has also written television and radio scripts, essays, such as Awkward Corners (1988, with his wife), and the novels Silence Among the Weapons (1982), Books of Bale (1988), and Jack Juggler and the Emperor's Whore (1995). |
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