Mercer Plays 2 - Flint & The Bankrupt & Afternoon at the Festival & Duck Song

Flint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which
was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It
is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old
swinging vicar who believes in “crossing lines not drawing them”
and espouses the romanticised Communism of Lenin and Guevara

In the BBC play The Bankrupt, Ellis Cripper, a woman aged fifty has become bankrupt through operating at “the dishonourable end of the system ... capitalism”

An Afternoon at the Festival centres around a version of middle-aged man Leo Brent who is an extreme egoist and a failure in his personal relationships

Duck Song was first produced in the dying days of the failing Heath government and the characters represent a society in decline as the younger characters attempt to find a solution through feminism or psychiatry, it presents “a world to which one cannot relate, which one cannot control, which one can’t understand, and which one can’t manipulate”

The Arcata Promise centres around the attraction betwen an actor and an inexperienced girl and the destructive conclusion of such an attraction

Find Me returns to the theme of ideological conflict and Eastern Europe

Huggy Bear is a Yorkshire Television production that depicts Hooper, an infantile and philosophical dentist with a “failure to integrate”