Andrea Dunbar

"The Arbor" redirects here. For other uses, see Arbor.

Andrea Dunbar
Born22 May 1961
Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died20 December 1990(1990-12-20) (aged 29)
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
OccupationPlaywright
EducationButtershaw Comprehensive School
Literary movementRealism

Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) was an English playwright. She wrote The Arbor (1980) and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire. She wrote most of the adaptation for the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987).[1]

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image icon from Telegraph & Argus , color[2]
image icon from Telegraph & Argus , monochrome[3]
image icon Dunbar, on the Buttershaw public housing estate, in the early 1980[4]
image icon Andrea Dunbar, facial scars from going through a glass window[5]
Video
video icon Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford British Theatre Guide via youtube
  1. ^ Youngs, Ian (28 May 2019). "The teenage Bradford 'genius' who told it like it was". BBC News. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Andrea Dunbar's legacy". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 24 October 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference telegraph-argus/dunbar-pub was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Hickling, Alfred (12 April 2010). "Back to Bradford: Andrea Dunbar remembered on film". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Andrea Dunbar lives on through a contemporary adaptation". The Face. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2024.