Edgar Plays: 2
Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers| By: | David Edgar |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780413630506 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781408161036 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The Guardian
This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby; and Entertaining Strangers, an English left-wing social drama.
Ecclesiastes is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.
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 Statesman
In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion." - The Sunday Times