The Confidential Clerk

The 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 incorporated into the dialogue.'

Spectator