Sarah Daniels is a British

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 dramatist. She has been a prolific writer since her first performed play was given a production at the Royal Court

Royal Court Theatre

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 in 1981. Her plays have appeared at other venues including the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

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, the Battersea Arts Centre

Battersea Arts Centre

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, the Crucible, Sheffield

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 and Chicken Shed. She has also written episodes of the soap-operas Grange Hill

Grange Hill

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, EastEnders

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and Holby City

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Sarah Daniels was involved in the "Video Nasties" debate of the 1980s, in which she mistook a scene from low-budget horror film Snuff (film) for a real-life Snuff Film

Snuff film

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http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=111046&page=4.

Sarah Daniels is a popular and critically acclaimed writer and has had two collections of her plays published by Methuen.

Plays include

• Masterpieces (1983)
• '[The Devil's Gateway (1983)
• Neaptide (1984)
• Byrthrite (1986)
• The Gut Girls (1988)
• Beside Herself (1990)
• The Madness of Esme and Shaz (1994)
• Dust (2003)
• Flying Under Bridges (2005)
• Head Rot Holiday
• God Blind Me (radio play 2007)
• But If You Try Sometimes (radio play 2011)