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David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. [1] He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre ...
Playwright David Edgar was born in Birmingham on 26 February 1948. He was educated at Oundle School and read Drama at Manchester University. After a short career in journalism, he took up writing full-time in 1972.
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Jan 8, 2015 · Playwright David Edgar has been announced as this year's Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama Studies at Oxford University. He will discuss the future of the playwright in a week-long series of talks and discussions next month. Mr Edgar said: 'A huge change is happening in British theatre. Throughout the last century, theatre programmes were ...
An interview with playwright David Edgar from May 2020 on life, writing, plays, theatre, craft and lockdown, particularly focusing on his play Maydays.
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Nov 5, 2021 · Renowned playwright David Edgar pioneered the teaching of playwriting in the UK, founding the Playwriting Studies course at Birmingham University in 1989. In this extract from the new, revised and updated edition of his seminal book How Plays Work, he investigates the fundamental geometry of plays, and why playwrights need to know the 'rules' that…
Jan 17, 2023 · David Edgar, our most premiered playwright, has been honoured with an Outstanding Contribution Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards. David is an RSC Honorary Associate Artist. His adaptation of A Christmas Carol recently finished a sold-out run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. His other work for the RSC includes Destiny, The ...
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Sep 26, 2011 · A second interview with playwright David Edgar and director Greg Doran where they discuss the historical background to Written On The Heart, a play that dram...
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