Edna the Inebriate Woman

Zusatztext

Edna the Inebriate Woman was written when Jeremy Sandford, whose documentary Cathy Come Home had focused public attention on the plight of homeless families, decided to study the equally grave problems faced by Britain's thousands of single homeless people. The author follows Edna on her continuous journey through town and country and shows us at first hand the shortcomings and sheer absurdities of a society whose response to Edna's predicament is insensitive, inappropriate and expensive. Sandford's own anger and impatience with our reluctance to help those who wander through the twilight world at the bottom of society is infectious.

Autorenportrait

Jeremy Sandford was born in 1930, died 2003, and was educated at Eton, Oxford, and joined a touring military band when young. He is the author of the screenplay Edna the Inebriate Woman. Cathy Come Home was awarded the Writers Guild Best Television Play, the ACTT Best TV Play of the Year, and the Italia Prize. Ken Loach directed the TV documentary of the book, and after it was aired, the then government called a special screening of the play to Housing ministers in Westminster, following the fierce political debate in the newspapers that followed the TV airing. Discussions on the 4000 plus families who were homeless in the UK in 1966 commenced, and following governments passed laws on social housing to improve conditions.

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