The Confidential ClerkThe Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953. 'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.' Times Literary Supplement 'A triumph of dramatic skill: the handling of the two levels of the play is masterly and Eliot's verse registers its greatest achievement on the stage passages of great lyrical beauty are

the savage violence or the senseless suicide that is being committed

As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true

The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA

who leaps off the page' Louise Hare

But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide

Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDEN

But Travis is going to have to play this game carefully Hirshs client is liable to break some fingers if he doesnt get what hes owed

the agency rapidly loses business

IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER

But if he can find his way to the truth

The Poet is back

Skillfully he weaves characters and incidents into the pattern of his own development