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David Mercer (27 June 1928 – 8 August 1980) was an English dramatist. David Mercer circa 1963. 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 (Wakefield, 27 giugno 1928 – Haifa, 8 agosto 1980) è stato un drammaturgo e sceneggiatore britannico. Esordì nel 1961 , con la commedia Da dove iniziano le differenze , che ebbe un seguito con la trilogia La generazione ( 1964 ).
26 mar 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 mag 2024 · Mercer was a great innovator in TV drama, although considered more conventional in his stage work. He was part of what critic John Russell Taylor has called 'the second wave' of British dramatists, following on from Pinter, Osborne, Wesker and the other Royal Court Theatre alumni.
11 feb 2013 · The playwright David Mercer was born in 1928, in a working class district of Wakefield, in the north of England. He was raised amid the poverty and hardship that bred the instinctual Socialism of his father and uncles, which they had learned from experience, and gathered from books by Wells, Shaw, Lenin and Marx.
Highlights from this period include several plays by David Mercer such as In Two Minds (1 March 1967) and Let's Murder Vivaldi (10 April 1968) and Potter's Son of Man (16 April 1969), a modern interpretation of the story of Jesus.
David Mercer may refer to: Sir David Mercer (Royal Marines officer) (1864–1920), British Royal Marines officer; David Mercer (footballer, born 1893) (1893–1950), England international footballer; David Mercer (footballer, born 1918) (1918–1986), English footballer; David Mercer (playwright) (1928–1980), English dramatist
