Title: The Quality of Mercer a Bibliography
Date: 1974
Number of Pages: 45
Format: bibliography
Keywords: playwright, dramatist
Created By: Fracis Jarman, John Noyce, Malcom Page, Ed Bell (art)
Place Created: Brighton
Related Collections: Alternative Brighton
Digitisation Credit: Cherie Wieble at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The UK playwright David Mercer was a newly emerged writer in the sixties; represented by agent Peggy Ramsay his plays were dramatised for the BBC as well as theatre, with his most successful work A Suitable Case for Treatment considered “a ground-breaking television play” when it aired October 21st, 1962 on BBC television. Its influence among the counterculture soared when in 1966 Karel Riesz directed its film adaptation and in doing so leapfrogs popular culture into a new place where “British social realism moves into a surrealistic depiction of inner psychological states.” (Savage)
This bibliography of Mercer’s works compiles the titles of Mercer’s plays, reviews of his works, his autobiographical articles, and related writing.
Citations
Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/morgan-suitable-case-for-treatment-dvd?CMP=share_btn_tw
Sunday Play , 21:45 18/10/1992, BBC Radio 3, 70 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/RT43BE81
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