{"product_id":"9780413652003","title":"Mercer Plays: 2 : Flint, The Bankrupt, An Afternoon at the Festival, Duck Song, The Arcata Promise, Find Me, Huggy Bear","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMercer Plays: 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Mercer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlint 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, a Yorkshire Television production that depicts Hooper, an infantile and philosophical dentist with a \"failure to integrate\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780413652003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593927798990,"sku":"9780413652003","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_ae0d553d-e19c-476c-a308-0a3a42ad8efd.jpg?v=1637796859","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780413652003","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}