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Andrea Dunbar

ANDREA DUNBAR

  (1961 - 1990)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    estate managed by Out of Joint TC

Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright. Her first play was The Arbor (1977), a brilliant depiction of an abusive father and daughter relationship. The play premiered at the Royal Court, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, winning the Young Writers' Festival. Her most well-known piece for theatre is Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), which was set in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and was a study of the sexual adventures of teenage girls. This was adapted for a film in 1986. Her third play, Shirley was produced in 1986. She died of a brain haemorrhage in 1990, at the age of 29.

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below is a list of Andrea Dunbar's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Arbor, The         Rita Sue And Bob Too         Shirley
Arbor, The

Arbor, The
Bleak study of the violence and depravation of family life on a decaying Bradford council estate.

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London     1980

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Pluto Press, London, 1980   

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Rita Sue And Bob Too

Rita Sue And Bob Too
Sharp, funny and disarmingly direct, Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical Rita, Sue and Bob Too follows the lives of two feisty schoolgirls who grow up on a Bradford estate and start an affair with a married man. Written in 1982 when Dunbar was only 18, the play was originally commissioned and directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Rita, Sue and Bob Too caught the mood of the early Thatcher years and became widely recognised as a marker of its time

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the rights holders Are the Out of Joint theatre Company, www.outofjoint.co.uk

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Young Writers Festival 1982 (2)

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Short Play One act

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Shirley

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