Synopsis
Mercer Plays 2 - Flint & The Bankrupt & Afternoon at the Festival & Duck Song
Published by Methuen
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"