Nick Hern Books, 2007

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (117), Female (64), Male (52), Unassigned (1)

...A Time to Keep is large-cast community play written for the Dorchester Community Players by David Edgar and Stephanie Dale. It was first performed at The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester, on 16 November 2007. Set in Dorset...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (20), Female (2), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Arthur & George is a stage play based on Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name (first published in 2005), itself based on a real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of fictional...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (47), Female (19), Male (28), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Daughters of the Revolution is one part of a two-play cycle under the collective title Continental Divide, set against the background of a bitterly fought American governor’s election in an unspecified Pacific-coast state...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (26), Female (8), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...First produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place in Stratford in September 1976, Destiny transferred to the Aldwych Theatre, London in May 1977 where it received exceptionally high praise from a wide range of critics...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar’s If Only is a political drama set around the 2010 UK General Election and its possible consequences for policymaking. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, on 20 June 2013 (previews from 14 June...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...In 1965, Mary Barnes arrives at Kingsley Hall, the first resident of an alternative treatment centre for mental illness founded by the controversial psychotherapist, R. D. Laing. Having undergone shock therapy and insulin injections for her...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (38), Female (10), Male (28), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's monumental Maydays dissects the saga of post-war political awakenings, as the many dedicated devotees of the ideals of communism become disillusioned, and dissent. In a play that spans five decades, we see socialists...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Mothers Against is one part of a two-play cycle under the collective title Continental Divide, set against the background of a bitterly fought American governor’s election in an unspecified Pacific-coast state. Mothers Against...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (33), Female (7), Male (26), Unassigned (0)

...It’s 1348 and the Black Death is raging throughout England. Fed up with feudal society, William leaves home to earn his living as a free man and is received into a company of players and tricksters. For these men, the plague offers many...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 25, Roles: Total (16), Female (7), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...A workers' strike in a weaving factory leads to a standoff with management. However, what would have once been a straightforward class-struggle is complicated by the fact that the Asian workers have a different set of grievances...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (30), Female (10), Male (20), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar’s play Pentecost is part of his trilogy of post-Cold War plays, together with The Shape of the Table (1990) and The Prisoner’s Dilemma (2001). It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (51), Female (17), Male (34), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Playing with Fire is a drama about racial tensions in modern, multicultural Britain, set mostly in a fictional town in West Yorkshire. It was first performed in the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 21...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...After a one-night stand with an old flame from America, Vicky loses interest in Clive. Hurt by the betrayal, Clive sleeps with Mo, a waitress from a local café. She in turn is modelling for Clay, the draft-dodging American photographer...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...It is 1975 and Frances and Rosie, friends since their teenage years, when they discovered the revolution of feminism together, are nonetheless drifting apart. At the same time, Denise and Tricia, part of the new crop...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Scenes: 68, Roles: Total (35), Female (10), Male (25), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Testing the Echo is a play that explores contemporary national identity in multicultural Britain, and examines the efficacy of the British citizenship test. It was first performed by Out of Joint Theatre Company at Salisbury...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...That Summer is set in the late summer of 1984, at a time when miners were striking all over Britain as their unions and the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, fought a battle that would change the industrial outlook...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (18), Female (0), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...When Albie Sachs walks into his chambers one morning, he feels a hand on his shoulder and soon finds himself surrounded by men in suits. Arrested and imprisoned without trial for speaking out against apartheid law, the young lawyer is held...

Nick Hern Books, 2001

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (34), Female (7), Male (27), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a play about political negotiation and the difficulty of reconciling opposing nationalist forces. It is the third play in Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy, which also includes The Shape of the Table...

Nick Hern Books, 1990

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (15), Female (3), Male (8), Unassigned (4)

...The Shape of the Table tracks the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. As the old regime retreats, former political prisoners join banned writers around the negotiating table... The play is part...

Nick Hern Books, 2018

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Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...David Edgar's Trying It On is an autobiographical play, written to be performed by its author. It was first performed at Warwick Arts Centre on 7 June 2018, at the beginning of a tour which included dates at the Birmingham Repertory...