Andrea Dunbar(1961-1990)
- Writer
Andrea Dunbar was brought up on the deprived Buttershaw Estate in
Bradford, which was the setting of her three plays. She had three
children by different fathers. Her first play, The Arbor, was written
for a Certificate of Secondary Education drama course and found its way
into the London Royal Court Theatre's Young Writer's Festival. This was
followed by the play, and later film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which
caused local controversy due to its portrayal of Bradford life. This is
reckoned to have been a cause of her heavy drinking which may have
contributed to her death at age 29 from a brain haemorrhage.
