Writer's Cramp
John Byrne |
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Rooftop Studio, Stone, 1997 |
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Director: |
Robert Marsden |
Cast: |
Frazer Flintham, Richard Bramwell, Suzanne Kerwin, Robert Marsden |
Lighting: |
Sara Christie |
Sound: |
Elaine Bird |
Design: |
Frazer Flintham |
DSM: |
Ester Golby |
Writer’s Cramp is a lighthearted tale of the highs and lows of aspiring writer Francis McDade.
The play was first performed in 1977 at Calton Studios and opened at the Bush Theatre in London in 1977 with John Bett, Alex Norton and Bill Patterson.
‘The play has constant undertones of upper class reality; a bourgeois group that comes to the help of its own and in this play the rescue of McDade. The audience’s impression should be of a comical world as McDade travels through life encountering success, failure, imprisonment and Anglo-Scottish swipes.’
Robert Marsden, 1997