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How Plays Work
Distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning Written for playwrights…
Edgar Plays 2 - Ecclesiastes & Nicholas Nickleby (Parts I and II) & Entertaining Strangers
Nicholas Nickleby - "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark" - New…
Edgar Plays 1 - The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs & Mary Barnes & Saigon Rose & O Fair Jerusalem & Destiny
This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and…
Edgar Plays 3 - Our Own People & Teendreams & Maydays & That Summer
Our Own People - "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" - City Limits Teendreams - (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed…
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy - an urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders "The greatest virtue of David Edgar's enthralling new play is that it confronts…
Arthur and George
This tells the astonishing story of the real life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective Birmingham solicitor George Edalji has been found guilty of maiming six horses and…
Albert Speer
Large Cast Male, 3 Female
Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. This panoramic adaptation of…
Pentecost
Large Cast Male, 9 Female
Winner of the 1995 Evening Standard Play of the Year Award A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. International and local art historians argue over who should own the painting.…
Continental Divide - Daughters of the Revolution
7 Male, 8 Female
Moving on to higher things from his job in a community college, former sixties activist Michael Bern finds that his partner has thrown a surprise 55th party in his honour, at which she and his friends…
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
8 Male, 3 Female
Substantially revised version of this ‘urgent, superbly wrought and well-structured’ adaptation of Stevenson’s story - Observer ‘Both a theatrical feast and an intellectual challenge’ - Sunday Times
