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David Rudkin - Wikipedia. James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright. Early life. Rudkin was born in London. Coming from a family of strict evangelical Christians, [1] he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and read Mods and Greats at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Apr 30, 2021 · TEN PLACEPRINTS. A sequence of 'journeys into haunted landscapes for voices and sound'. Developed at intervals over the past 12 years, and now recorded and published on their website by New Perspectives Theatre Company, Nottingham. Accessible also on spotify.
David Rudkin was born in 1936. He is a writer and director, known for Screenplay (1986), The Woodlanders (1997) and Testimony (1987).
The work of David Rudkin, who has been characterised as a ‘dramatist of unusual daring and intensity’ (Rabey, David Rudkin 20), represents a dissenting, alternative voice in the context of contemporary British theatre.
The islanders' bleak puritanism is an unknowing mask: beneath their extinct volcanic rock, a government experiment is dehumanizing deviant captives in a subterranean synthetic world. The pastor's and his sons' actions - unwittingly, it seems, but unerringly - provoke the discovery of this, and precipitate a prisoners' uprising.
Sep 29, 2013 · Dr. Rabey's profound critical study of David Rudkin's drama constitutes an in-depth evaluation of this unique dramatist, re-assessed in the light of his bi-sexuality and Anglo-Irish origins.
Feb 28, 2017 · David Rudkin is a major figure in postwar British theatre whose work is not revived frequently enough. Kenneth Tynan acclaimed his classic Afore Night Come as “the finest debut since Look...
