Sarah Daniels (born November 1956 in London) is a British dramatist. She has been a prolific writer since her first professionally performed play, ''Ripen Our Darkness'', was given a production at the
Royal Court
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in 1981.
Career
Daniels' playwriting career took off after she sent in a script to the Royal Court Theatre in London for reading and spent a year as the writer-in-residence of
Sheffield University
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’s English department. Since the early 1980s, her plays have appeared at other venues including the
National Theatre, the
Battersea Arts Centre, the
Crucible, Sheffield and
Chicken Shed. Her play ''Neaptide'' premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1986. She has also written episodes of the soap-operas ''
EastEnders'' and ''
Holby City'' and the long-running BBC children's series ''
Grange Hill
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''.
Daniels was involved in the "
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" censorship debate of the 1980s; in her 1983 play ''Masterpieces'', she mistakenly described the low-budget horror film ''
Snuff
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'' (1976) as a real-life
snuff film
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.
Daniels has had two collections of her plays published by
Methuen.
Daniels has also been a member of the board of directors for the
Clean Break theatre company. Daniels' civil partner of many years, activist and schools inspector Claire Walton, died in 2009.
In June 2019, Daniels' dramatization of Jeremy Gavron's 2015 ''A Woman on the Edge of Time'', a memoir of his mother
Hannah Gavron, was broadcast as the ''
15 Minute Drama
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'' on
BBC Radio 4
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.
Plays
* ''Ma's Flesh Is Grass'' (1981)
* ''Ripen Our Darkness'' (1981)
* ''Masterpieces'' (1983)
* ''The Devil's Gateway'' (1983)
* ''Neap tide'' (1984)
* ''Birthdate'' (1986)
* ''The Gut Girls'' (1988)
* ''Beside Herself'' (1990)
* ''Head Rot Holiday'' (1991)
* ''The Madness of Esme and Shaz'' (1994)
* ''Purple Side Coasters'' (1995)
* ''Best Mates'' (2000)
* ''Morning Glory'' (2001)
* ''Dust'' (2003)
* ''Sound Barriers'' (2005)
* ''Flying Under Bridges'' (2005)
* ''Who's Afraid of Virginia's Sister?'' (2006)
* ''God Blind Me'' (radio play 2007)
* ''But If You Try Sometimes'' (radio play 2011)
* 'Talking About a Revolution' (radio play
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