{"product_id":"9781408162057","title":"Mercer Plays: 2: Flint, The Bankrupt, An Afternoon at the Festival, Duck Song, The Arcata Promise, Find Me, Huggy Bear","description":"The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152083239152,"sku":"9781408162057","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408162057_p0.jpg?v=1763720507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408162057","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}