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David Eldridge

In addition to the trilogy comprising Beginning (2017), Middle (2022) and End (2025), David Eldridge’s plays include: Under a Blue Sky, Festen, Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, Market Boy, In Basildon, and The Knot of the Heart, as well as adaptations of Ibsen and Strindberg, including The Wild Duck and Miss Julie. David’s most recent play is his adaptation of John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which premiered at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester in 2024, before transferring to the Soho Place in London’s West End in 2025.

David is also a lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.

Photo by Johan Persson

Recommended Play(s)

In episode 11 David recommended Across Oka by Robert Holman.
In episode 47 he recommended another Robert Holman play, The Lodger.
In episode 106 he recommendedMy Mother’s Funeral: The Show by Kelly Jones.