David Edgar (playwright)

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David Edgar (born February 26, 1948 in Birmingham , England ) is a British playwright who has been one of the most productive British playwrights since the 1960s with more than sixty works for theater , radio and television .

Life

After attending school, Edgar studied dramaturgy at the University of Manchester and then worked as a journalist in Bradford before he decided to work full-time as a dramatist.

He had his first great success with Destiny (1976), a large-scale stage work that looks at the roots of fascism in British society and was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) . His 1980 eight-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens ’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , staged by the RSC, brought his work recognition and notoriety to a wider audience.

In 1983 he wrote the similarly ambitious play Maydays , which was the first contemporary play to be performed by the RSC at the Barbican Theater . His other important stage works include Entertaining Strangers and The Shape of the Table (1990), which dealt with negotiations between a communist government and its opponents in the fall of 1989.

In addition, he wrote the templates for a documentary entitled Civil War (1991) and the radio play A Movie Starring Me (1991) as well as a number of other literary adaptations such as The Strange Fall of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1991) and Pentecost (1994).

In 1992 Edgar was appointed honorary professor at the University of Birmingham .

Works

1970-1979

  • Death story , 1972
  • Would you buy a used horse from this man? or, Dick deterred , 1973
  • Dick deterred , 1974
  • Destiny , 1976
  • Racism, Fascism and the Politics of the National Front , 1977
  • Wreckers , 1977
  • Ball boys , 1978
  • The jail diary of Albie Sachs , 1978
  • Teendreams , 1979
  • Mary Barnes , 1979

1980-1989

  • Destiny (Modern Plays) , 1980
  • Wreckers (New Theatrescripts) , 1980
  • The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , 1982
  • Maydays , 1983
  • Public theater in a private age , 1984
  • The new right and the church , 1985
  • Entertaining strangers , 1986
  • That summer , 1987
  • The second time as farce , 1988
  • Teendreams and Our Own People (A Methuen Modern Play) , 1988
  • Edgar , 1989
  • Vote for them , 1989

1990-2000

  • Edgar Plays 2 , 1990
  • The shape of the table , 1990
  • Edgar Plays 3 , 1991
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 1991
  • Buying a landslide , 1992
  • Pentecost , 1995
  • Pentecost: The Rsc / Allied Domecq Young Vic Season , 1996
  • Edgar Plays 1 , 1997
  • How Plays Work , 1998
  • State of Play , 1999

Since 2000

  • Edgar - shorts , 2000
  • Albert Speer: based on the book Albert Speer: his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny , 2000, ISBN 1-85459-485-0
  • The prisoner's dilemma , 2001
  • Mothers against , 2003
  • Continental divide , 2004
  • Playing With Fire (Nick Hern Book) , 2006
  • Testing the echo , 2008
  • The master builder , 2010
in German language
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 1993

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Edgar, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England, UK