Edgar Plays Two

By David Edgar

Book Overview

"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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413630501
• ISBN13: 9780413630506
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.1"