David Eldridge | The Guardian: David Eldridge is an acclaimed dramatist and screenwriter. Born in Romford, where his father was a shoemaker, his plays include Market Boy, In Basildon and an adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film Festen. His new play, Middle, is at the National Theatre, the second in a trilogy of dramas about couples that began in 2017 with the West End hit Beginning. He has three sons, lives in north London, and attends every West Ham home game.
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I think this guy actually gets life though. Playwrights are so cool like, they're not jut any kind of writer. They write in heightened circumstances with dramatic action and they have to make it stageable (allegedly). But I like the way that David Eldridge thinks, not just about his play or his process but about the people he's writing about and for. Like in the article when they asked him to talk about whether or not he believes the working class are being heard, and he didn't just answer honestly, he answered in a way that was both poetic and realistic at the same time. I mean maybe there's no target audience for plays about middle class families playing soccer but if something means so much to someone, the care they take to craft and create is like nothing anyone could ever imagine. Cheers to David Ethridge, I hope his show goes well.
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