Better Days Better Knights (NHB Modern Plays) (ePub)

Stanley Eveling was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and wrote his first performed play when he was seven. It contained little dialogue and much rough-and-tumble and was banned by the school authorities. For the next thirty or more years he spent his time in the infantry during the Second World War, and then at Durham and Oxford Universities, studying English Literature and then Philosophy. He went on to teach the latter at Aberdeen and Aberystwyth, and then finally Edinburgh, where he lived for fifty years. He was, for a number of years, the television critic for the Scotsman, which followed his delayed return to playwriting. After a spell writing plays for radio he moved to writing for the theatre, where his play The Balachites was the first British work to be produced at the newly opened Traverse Theatre. His other plays for the Traverse include The Buglar Boy and His Swish Friend, The Dead of Night, Union Jack (and Bonzo), Caravaggio, Buddy, Our Sunday Times, Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning, The Lunatic, the Secret Sportsman and the Woman Next Door and Come and Be Killed. His most recent play, Ways to Remember, received a rehearsed reading at the Traverse in June 2009. He also wrote poetry and was engaged on a philosophical work called On Practically Everything. He was married with four children and ten grandchildren. He died on 24 December 2008.

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