The bankrupt
By: David Mercer
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: In the 1972 BBC play 'The Bankrupt', Ellis Cripper, a 50 year-old businessman returns after his release as a mental patient from hospital to his working-class father's country cottage, having been declared bankrupt after his package holiday company has failed. He is oppressed by dreams in which he is the victim of black magic rituals, and the people in his life crowd in on him.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1994.