Storey Plays One : The Contractor - Home - Stages - Caring

"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian) The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation of madness and...;the decline of Britain itself...;part of the play's appeal is that Storey leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions...;a play that contains within itself the still, sad music of humanity." (Guardian); Stages: "...;an elegy for lost times and places, an obituary that has been free-associated by the corpse-to-be...;Storey once said that a play 'lives almost in the measure that it escapes and refuses definition'. He has always been a writer who hints rather than states, let alone hectors." (The Times); Caring, a companion piece to Stages, reflects a reassessment and renegotiation of the conflict between life and art.