"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.
is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.
: "With uncommon audacity
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
, 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