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Andrea Dunbar was born on 22 May, 1961 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, is an English playwright, 1961–1990. Discover Andrea Dunbar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 29 years old?

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Occupation Playwright
Age 29 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 22 May 1961
Birthday 22 May
Birthplace Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Date of death 20 December, 1990
Died Place Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Children Lorraine Dunbar, Andrew Dunbar, Lisa Thompson

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1961

Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) was an English playwright.

Born on 22 May 1961, Dunbar was raised on Brafferton Arbor on the Buttershaw council estate in Bradford, England, with seven brothers and sisters.

Both her parents had worked in the textile industry.

Dunbar attended Buttershaw Comprehensive School.

1977

Dunbar began her first play, The Arbor, in 1977 at the age of 15, writing it as a classroom assignment for CSE English.

It is the story of "a Bradford schoolgirl who falls pregnant to her Pakistani boyfriend on a racist estate," and has an abusive drunken father.

Encouraged by her teacher, she was helped to develop the play to performance standard.

1979

The first, Lorraine, was born in 1979, and had a Pakistani father.

1980

She wrote The Arbor (1980) and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire.

It received its première in 1980 at London's Royal Court Theatre, directed by Max Stafford-Clark.

At the age of 18, Dunbar was the youngest playwright to have her work performed there.

Alongside a play entered by Lucy Anderson Jones, The Arbor jointly won at the Young Writers' Festival, and was later augmented and performed in New York City.

On 26 March 1980, she was featured in the BBC's Arena arts documentary series.

A year later, in 1980, Lisa was born, again while Dunbar was still a teenager.

About three years later, she had a son, Andrew, with Jim Wheeler.

As a single mother, Dunbar lived in a Women's Aid refuge in Keighley and became an increasingly heavy drinker.

1982

Dunbar was quickly commissioned to write a follow-up play, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, first performed in 1982.

This explores similar themes to The Arbor through the lives of two teenage girls who are having affairs with the same married man.

1986

Dunbar's third and final play, Shirley (1986), places greater emphasis on a central character.

It depicts a girl's "tumultuous relationship" with her mother.

As she explained, she meant to write "about Shirley and John but, you know, I wrote the mother in and she bloody took over the whole play."

1987

She wrote most of the adaptation for the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987).

The film version of Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) was adapted for the cinema by Dunbar, directed by Alan Clarke and filmed on the Buttershaw estate.

Dunbar disowned the film when more writers were brought in to give it a happier ending.

However, it created considerable controversy on the estate because of its negative portrayal of the area.

Dunbar was threatened by several residents, but nevertheless continued to live there.

1990

In 1990, she died of a brain haemorrhage in Bradford Royal Infirmary at the age of 29, after falling ill in The Beacon, a pub on the Buttershaw Estate, at the junction of Reevy Road West and The Crescent.

2000

In 2000, Dunbar's life and her surroundings were revisited in the play A State Affair by Robin Soans.

2007

In 2007, her eldest daughter Lorraine, a heroin addict at the time, was convicted of manslaughter for causing the death of her child by gross neglect after the child ingested a lethal dose of methadone.

2010

In 2010 a commemorative blue plaque on Dunbar's former home on Brafferton Arbor was unveiled in the presence of her relatives.

Dunbar first became pregnant at the age of 15; the baby was stillborn at six months.

She later had three children by three different fathers.

A film about her life, The Arbor, directed by Clio Barnard, was released in 2010.

The film uses actors lip-synching to interviews with Dunbar and her family, and concentrates on the strained relationship between Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine.

2016

It was closed in 2016 and demolished in 2019, but appears in the opening shot of Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

Her cremated remains were buried at Scholemoor Cemetery and Crematorium (Section N, Grave 1219) in Bradford.

Her headstone is a small black granite cross.

2017

A novel inspired by Dunbar's life and work, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe, was published in 2017 by Wrecking Ball Press.

It was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature and the Gordon Burn Prize.

2018

In January 2018, her daughter Lisa Pearce died of stomach cancer after having been diagnosed in December 2016.