David Rudkin

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James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright.

Early life

Rudkin was born in

Mods and Greats at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Beginning to write during national service in the Royal Corps of Signals, Rudkin taught Latin, Greek and music at North Bromsgrove High School in Worcestershire until 1964,[2] while also directing amateur theatre productions.[3]

Career

Following the success of his first play

Sadlers Wells 1963)[4] and the libretto for Gordon Crosse's comic opera, The Grace of Todd.[2]

Rudkin's major works for the stage include Ashes (1974), The Sons of Light (written in 1965 though not staged until 1975), The Triumph of Death (1981) and The Saxon Shore (1986). His associations with the RSC also led him to translate the Hippolytus of Euripides for the company in 1978, having translated the author's Hecuba for radio three years previously.[2]

He has written for television, including The Stone Dance (1963), Children Playing (1967), House of Character (1968)

Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin (1973) (also staged by the RSC); and for cinema, including François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451
(1966).

He has also written a volume in the British Film Institute's "Film Classics" series, a 2005 study of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr.[5]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ Anger and After by John Russell Taylor p.279 of revised 1963 Pelican edition
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  3. ^ John Russell Taylor Anger and After, Harmondesworth: Pelican, 1963 ed., pp.279-280
  4. ^ a b John Russell Taylor Anger & After, Methuen University Paperback, 1969 reprint, p.309
  5. ^ OBIES Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 16 Oct 09
  6. ^ Benedict, David (27 June 1997). "THEATRE The Maids Donmar Warehouse, London". The Independent. London. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  7. ^ Param Vir's website Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 7 October 2009
  8. ^ Jonathan Harvey's website Retrieved on 7 October 2009
  9. ^ Param Vir's website Archived 9 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 7 October 2009

Further reading

  • David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience: an expository study of his drama 1959-96 by

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