David Shirreff is a former journalist who started writing musicals, plays and the odd novel in 2009.
He left The Economist in 2014, embarking on a second career. His published books include Vulkan, a cold war thriller (2015), Overland, a ‘Hippie Trail’ travelogue (1970, published in 2022), Gundermann: East Germany’s Coal Miner Rock Poet (2023), and Angels Over Lusatia, a climate-change novel (2024). There are plenty more manuscripts in the bottom drawer.
Colonel Anne
DunsPlayers/Crunch Productions, at The Space@Venue 45, Edinburgh Fringe, and at Braemar Village Hall, 2023
Murder Most Foul
Kilmington community players, Kilmington churchyard, Wiltshire, 2021
Brexit the Musical
Crunch Productions, directed by Lucy Appleby, music by Russell Sarre & Frederick Appleby (no relation), OSO Arts, Canal Café Theatre, Waterloo East Theatre, The Other Palace, 2016-7
Broke Britannia
Crunch Productions, music by Russell Sarre, Bridewell Theatre, 2015
Barack and the Beanstalk
Crunch Productions, music by Russell Sarre, OSO Arts, Canal Café Theatre 2014
Eurocrash
Crunch Productions, music by Russell Sarre, OSO Arts, Cockpit Theatre, Birmingham Town Hall, Ambassadors Theatre (single performance), Prime Time Theater Berlin, International Theatre Frankfurt, 2012-3
Broke Britannia
Crunch Productions, music by Russell Sarre, OSO Arts, The Space@Venue 45, Edinburgh Fringe, 2010
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