Ashes review – an honest look at a couple's failure to conceive
David Thacker revives David Rudkin’s rarely performed 1970s play about an infertile Ulsterman and his English wife
November 2014
Penda’s Fen: a lasting vision of heresy and pastoral horror
Following in the footsteps of The Wicker Man, David Rudkin’s 1974 TV play offers a powerful portrait of adolescence and religious anguish in rural England, writes Sukhdev Sandhu
October 2010
The best performance I've ever seen
The best performance I've ever seen: Gregory Burke, playwright
Black Watch author Gregory Burke recalls the mythic power of Afore Night Come, David Rudkin's play about fruit pickers
