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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › David_Edgar_(playwright)David Edgar (playwright) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

   • Occupation: Playwright

   • Born: 26 February 1948 (age 75), Birmingham, England

2. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › david-edgarDavid Edgar - Literature - British Council

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   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.

   • Place Of Birth: Birmingham, England

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   Who is David Edgar?

   • 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.

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   How did David Edgar start a playwriting workshop?

   • In the preface to this wide-ranging guide to the mechanisms and techniques of drama, David Edgar describes the origins of the book in the playwriting workshops and courses he ran at Birmingham University from the mid-1970s to 1999, which focused on dramatic problems that ‘can be collectively explored and individually applied’.

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   Who is David Edgar artist?

   • Check facts about David Edgar Artist here. Even though Hockney is always linked with British Pop Art movement, he used the expressionist characters in his early works of art. Hockney wanted his skill assessed only based on his artworks. Therefore, he was not graduated by RCA in 1962.

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   Where does David Edgar live?

   • He lives in Birmingham. ‘Drama confronts our private dreams and agonies with the public rituals designed to mark and come to terms with them’, David Edgar has observed in How Plays Work (2003). The interplay between private life and public life is indeed one of the abiding themes of his works.

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4. www.ox.ac.uk › news › arts-blogIs the playwright dead? David Edgar announced as Humanitas ...

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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 ...

5. www.theguardian.com › stage › 2018The haranguing of David Edgar – by his 20-year-old self

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   Oct 29, 2018 · The 70-year-old Edgar imagines a confrontation with his 20-year-old self when he was a political activist at Manchester University. The impatient young socialist wants to know precisely what the ...

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7. www.britannica.com › biography › David-EdgarDavid Edgar | British playwright | Britannica

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   In English literature: Drama. David Edgar developed into a dramatist of impressive span and depth with plays such as Destiny (1976) and Pentecost (1994), his masterly response to the collapse of communism and rise of nationalism in eastern Europe. David Hare similarly widened his range with confident accomplishment; in…. Read More.

8. www.theguardian.com › stage › davidedgarDavid Edgar | Stage | The Guardian

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   Nov 15, 2022 · Playwright David Edgar to make stage debut in political one-man show. After 50 years of writing, Edgar will revisit his radical youth in a ‘conversation between my older and younger self’.

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10. www.nickhernbooks.co.uk › david-edgarNick Hern Books | About David Edgar

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    David Edgar is a leading UK playwright, author of many original plays and adaptations. He also pioneered the teaching of playwriting in the UK, founding the Playwriting Studies course at Birmingham University in 1989. His plays include: A Christmas Carol, adapted from the story by Charles Dickens (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2017); If Only (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2013); Written on the ...