David Eldridge (dramatist)

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David Eldridge is an English Dramatist, born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom (UK)in 1973.

His plays have been performed at major new writing institutions in the UK, including The Royal Court Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and the National Theatre. His stage adaptation of the film Festen transferred from the Almeida Theatre to the West End and Broadway.

Contents 1 Plays 2 Adaptations/Versions 3 Bibliography 4 Blog

[edit] Plays

• Cabbage for Tea, Tea, Tea! (Exeter University, 1995)
• Sideway Moving (Edinburgh Fringe, 1995)
• Fighting for Breath (Finborough Theatre, 1995)
• Serving It Up (playreading Finborough Theatre, 1995)
• Serving It Up (Bush Theatre, 1996)
• Dirty (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 1996)
• A Week with Tony (Finborough Theatre, 1996)
• Summer Begins (Donmar Warehouse, 1997)
• Thanks Mum (Red Room/Battersea Arts Centre, 1998)
• Falling (Hampstead Theatre, 1999)
• Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre, 2000)
• Killers (BBC Television, 2000)
• Michael & Me (BBC Radio 4, 2001)
• The Nugget Run (Short Film, 2002)
• Stratford, Ilford, Romford and All Stations to Southend (BBC Radio 4, 2003)
• M.A.D. (Bush Theatre, 2004)
• Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness (Royal Court Theatre, 2005)
• Market Boy (National Theatre, 2006)

[edit] Adaptations/Versions

• Festen - adaptation of Dogme film (Almeida Theatre/Lyric Theatre, 2004 / Music Box Theatre, New York, 2006)
• Our Hidden Lives - television adaptation of novel by Simon Garfield (BBC Television, 2005)
• The Wild Duck - new version of play by Henrik Ibsen (Donmar Warehouse, 2006)
• John Gabriel Borkman - new version of play by Henrik Ibsen (Donmar Warehouse, 2007)

[edit] Bibliography

• Plays: One (Serving It Up/Summer Begins/Under the Blue Sky/M.A.D) (Methuen, 2005) ISBN 0413775097

[edit] Blog

• One Writer and his Dog [1]