David Eldridge
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social
"Astute social chronicler" (Time Out). Writer, lecturer & dad dancer. Thoughts on family, the arts, WHUFC, books & politics. Rep Michael McCoy at Independent Talent, London.
Join me on Mon 26 Jan for an exclusive post-show talk with the creative team, producers and cast, chaired by journalist Mark Lawson. The talk will explore the creative process behind adapting John le Carré’s inimitable novels for stage and screen 🕵️♂️🥶👀
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January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Join me on Mon 26 Jan for an exclusive post-show talk with the creative team, producers and cast, chaired by journalist Mark Lawson. The talk will explore the creative process behind adapting John le Carré’s inimitable novels for stage and screen 🕵️♂️🥶👀
spyonstage.com
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A bittersweet day when End ends and so does a decade long collaboration with @nationaltheatre
What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to make this work.
🌍🙏🏻❤️💃🪩🕺🎭
#beginning #middle #end @nationaltheatre.org.uk
What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to make this work.
🌍🙏🏻❤️💃🪩🕺🎭
#beginning #middle #end @nationaltheatre.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 7:08 AM
A bittersweet day when End ends and so does a decade long collaboration with @nationaltheatre
What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to make this work.
🌍🙏🏻❤️💃🪩🕺🎭
#beginning #middle #end @nationaltheatre.org.uk
What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to make this work.
🌍🙏🏻❤️💃🪩🕺🎭
#beginning #middle #end @nationaltheatre.org.uk
6 shows left… No plans at all at present for a transfer… Who knows if an English management will ever produce the trilogy… So folks don’t assume you’ll get another chance to see the show… Sometimes End means end… #end #ntend @nationaltheatre.org.uk until 17 January 📷 Marc Brenner
January 14, 2026 at 11:07 AM
6 shows left… No plans at all at present for a transfer… Who knows if an English management will ever produce the trilogy… So folks don’t assume you’ll get another chance to see the show… Sometimes End means end… #end #ntend @nationaltheatre.org.uk until 17 January 📷 Marc Brenner
Did the wonderful Play Podcast as I have previously for Beginning and Middle 👀
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106 - End by David Eldridge - The Play Podcast
David Eldridge joins me in this episode of The Play Podcast to talk about his new play 'End', the final instalment of his trilogy of plays.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Did the wonderful Play Podcast as I have previously for Beginning and Middle 👀
www.theplaypodcast.com/106-end-by-d...
www.theplaypodcast.com/106-end-by-d...
January 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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End by David Eldridge at the NT. Go and see it if you can. Moving and funny. Great performances from Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen.
January 9, 2026 at 9:35 PM
End by David Eldridge at the NT. Go and see it if you can. Moving and funny. Great performances from Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen.
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The journey must end… with a new beginning.
Dr Irina Roncaglia watches 'End' at @nationaltheatre.org.uk
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Dr Irina Roncaglia watches 'End' at @nationaltheatre.org.uk
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social
The journey must end… with a new beginning | BPS
Dr Irina Roncaglia watches 'End' at the National Theatre.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:33 AM
The journey must end… with a new beginning.
Dr Irina Roncaglia watches 'End' at @nationaltheatre.org.uk
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social
Dr Irina Roncaglia watches 'End' at @nationaltheatre.org.uk
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social
Caught up with #thespywhocameinfromthecold at Soho Place and our wonderful company. I really relished it. To get close to the genius of John le Carré, his sense of story, of drama, of style, his quirks as a writer, his obsessions, his wit is a great privilege. Come see us 👀🕵️♂️🥶🙏🏻
January 5, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Caught up with #thespywhocameinfromthecold at Soho Place and our wonderful company. I really relished it. To get close to the genius of John le Carré, his sense of story, of drama, of style, his quirks as a writer, his obsessions, his wit is a great privilege. Come see us 👀🕵️♂️🥶🙏🏻
I really loved doing this interview for Exeunt on adapting Spy and writing with the excellent Frey Kwa Hawking @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social
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Post-show discussion: David Eldridge on adapting Le Carré
The playwright talks to Le Carré fan Frey Kwa Hawking about his version of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
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January 2, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I really loved doing this interview for Exeunt on adapting Spy and writing with the excellent Frey Kwa Hawking @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is *the* Cold War novel. I read it as a kid and it knocked me sideways.
But that was long ago. With a stage version in the West End and a TV version pending, what does it mean now? Thoughts for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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But that was long ago. With a stage version in the West End and a TV version pending, what does it mean now? Thoughts for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
We are all le Carré's people now
Look into his wilderness of mirrors and see our own world reflected all around
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December 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is *the* Cold War novel. I read it as a kid and it knocked me sideways.
But that was long ago. With a stage version in the West End and a TV version pending, what does it mean now? Thoughts for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
But that was long ago. With a stage version in the West End and a TV version pending, what does it mean now? Thoughts for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Acabo de leer #End de David Eldridge, antes de ir a verla en el montaje que ha estrenado Clive Owen, y me ha dejado tocadísimo... Qué gusto cuando hay quien sigue confiando en la fuerza de la palabra -y en los silencios- para escribir buen teatro ❤️🩹
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Acabo de leer #End de David Eldridge, antes de ir a verla en el montaje que ha estrenado Clive Owen, y me ha dejado tocadísimo... Qué gusto cuando hay quien sigue confiando en la fuerza de la palabra -y en los silencios- para escribir buen teatro ❤️🩹
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Knocked out by David Eldridge's End at the Dorfman Theatre. We went in knowing nothing about it and realised we were basically watching a play about ourselves and people we know: the music, the memories, the locations. For people of a certain generation who would like to cry during You Got the Love.
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Knocked out by David Eldridge's End at the Dorfman Theatre. We went in knowing nothing about it and realised we were basically watching a play about ourselves and people we know: the music, the memories, the locations. For people of a certain generation who would like to cry during You Got the Love.
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I was delighted to be asked by @mogster.bsky.social to contribute to this wonderful, inspiring series. Here's my honest - and honestly positive! -description of what writing days are like.
This weeks post comes from the brilliant @danrebellato.bsky.social 💓
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An Honest Day In The Life Of A Writer #37
Dan Rebellato
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December 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I was delighted to be asked by @mogster.bsky.social to contribute to this wonderful, inspiring series. Here's my honest - and honestly positive! -description of what writing days are like.
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This just arrived. Very proud to have been asked to write an introduction to @deldridgewriter.bsky.social's beautiful trilogy. A great challenge having to wrestle my turbulent love for these plays into written form.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This just arrived. Very proud to have been asked to write an introduction to @deldridgewriter.bsky.social's beautiful trilogy. A great challenge having to wrestle my turbulent love for these plays into written form.
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Truly beautiful piece about Tom Stoppard by his admirer and collaborator Patrick Marber.
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked ...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Truly beautiful piece about Tom Stoppard by his admirer and collaborator Patrick Marber.
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From beginning, middle, to end 💙
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
From beginning, middle, to end 💙
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
Another Giant gone. Stoppard was an utterly unique talent and voice. What a loss to the theatre. Rest in peace 🙏🏻
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Another Giant gone. Stoppard was an utterly unique talent and voice. What a loss to the theatre. Rest in peace 🙏🏻
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Saw this by @deldridgewriter.bsky.social tonight. It was glorious and I feel emotionally wrung out. A wonderful end to the trilogy. Grab a ticket if you can.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Saw this by @deldridgewriter.bsky.social tonight. It was glorious and I feel emotionally wrung out. A wonderful end to the trilogy. Grab a ticket if you can.
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Anyway, this “spoilt and entitled horrible little ignoramus” just saw End at the National and loved it! Such rich but understated performances. Not seen anyone crumple their face like Clive Owen. The hour and a half flew by; I almost didn’t want it to end
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Anyway, this “spoilt and entitled horrible little ignoramus” just saw End at the National and loved it! Such rich but understated performances. Not seen anyone crumple their face like Clive Owen. The hour and a half flew by; I almost didn’t want it to end
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
I love this picture Marc Brenner took. This is my play ❤️💔📷 @nationaltheatre.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I love this picture Marc Brenner took. This is my play ❤️💔📷 @nationaltheatre.org.uk
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Last night Stuart and I went to see End at Dorfman Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank.
Conflict of interest as I know writer David Eldridge but this trilogy finale is superb. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves are stunning.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@nationaltheatre @cliveowen @saskiareeves #End
Conflict of interest as I know writer David Eldridge but this trilogy finale is superb. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves are stunning.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@nationaltheatre @cliveowen @saskiareeves #End
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Last night Stuart and I went to see End at Dorfman Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank.
Conflict of interest as I know writer David Eldridge but this trilogy finale is superb. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves are stunning.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@nationaltheatre @cliveowen @saskiareeves #End
Conflict of interest as I know writer David Eldridge but this trilogy finale is superb. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves are stunning.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@nationaltheatre @cliveowen @saskiareeves #End