DAVID EDGAR (1948 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Edgar
Acid |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Copycat murder copies Charles Manson massacre, takes place after 1970 pop festival on the Isle of Wight. | ||||
Albert Speer |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2000 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: from Gitta Sereny's biography | ||||
Synopsis: Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. This panoramic adaptation of Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography tells the epic story of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century. | ||||
All-Singing All-Talking Golden Oldie Rock Revival Ho Chi Minh Peace Love And Revolution Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bingley College of Education, Yorkshire | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Musical Extravaganza | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka The . . . Show | ||||
Synopsis: The story of rock culture from the 1950's to the 1970's through teds, mods, rockers, hippies, yippies, hell's angels, skinheads and teenyboppers. | ||||
Baby Love |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly Theatre, London ? (Leeds Playhouse, March 1973 | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised 1974 | ||||
Synopsis: After the still birth of her illegitimate baby Eileen steals a baby at random, sentenced to nine months imprisonment, Valium rules. | ||||
Ball Boys |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of Summer Sports | ||||
Synopsis: hyperbolic peroration against beautiful people | ||||
Blood Sports |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: as Summer Sports at Birmingham Arts Lab, July 1975 | ||||
Synopsis: satire of Britain as a divided nation, warning that the real blood sports will involve acts of revenge | ||||
Bloody Rosa |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester University , at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Theatrical Symposium" | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling 34 parts | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Play within a play on the Polish born revolutionary Rosa Luxembourg displaying different attitudes about the play's subject. | ||||
Case Of The Workers' Plane, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol New Vic, Bristol | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Documentary with Music | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised in 1975 as Concorde Cabaret | ||||
Synopsis: History and glorification of Concorde aeroplane through eyes of a private eye. | ||||
Continental Divide |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Two Play Cycle | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Daughters Of The Revolution & Mothers Against | ||||
Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed playwright David Edgar (Pentecost, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby) turns his attention to American politics with this two-play cycle examining both sides of a gubernatorial campaign. These two plays, which can be seen in either order, explore what has happened to the revolutionary fervour that took hold of both the Right and the Left in the 1960s, and how it has been transmuted and carried on in politics today | ||||
Conversation In Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh University, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Interlude in 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Eve discuss life, love and sex with the Virgin Mary in Heaven, interrupted by Angel serpent. | ||||
Daughters of the Revolution |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 15 | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Michael Bern, a former campus radical and retiring community college dean, discovers years later that the political collective of which he was a prominent member in the '60s had been infiltrated and betrayed to the FBI by one of their own-a betrayal with consequences for Michael's career and marriage long after he thought he had left his radical past behind. As he sets out on a journey to find the traitor, he must come to terms with the man he has become and the relative success, or failure, of his political ideals. | ||||
Death Story |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Allegory of Romeo and Juliet set in historically imprecise Verona; sectarian violence exploited by the military and political "peacekeeping" forces. | ||||
Destiny |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1976 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | supers | |||
Notes: transferred to the Aldwych, London, May 1977 | ||||
Synopsis: Telling the story of a by-election campaign in the West Midlands, Destiny examines the rise of right-wing extremism in Britain during the mid-1970s. Edgar explores the emotional appeal of Fascism and how it grows from personal grievance and prejudice. The play's impact is strengthened through its powerful rhetoric and symbolism and the shock ending, which leaves the audience with the words of Hitler. With its portrayal of the motives behind political extremism, Destiny remains topical and relevant today. | ||||
Dick Deterred |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Monthly Review Press", New York | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | Burlesque Play | - | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Richard Nixon plotting to defeat Edward IV Part III in the 1968 presidential elections parallels Shakespeare's Richard using a kingdom for his own ends. | ||||
Dirty Tickets |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Plays By Peter Simmons, David Edgar: | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1996 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: which character is the real one? | ||||
Dunkirk Spirit, The |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour, General Will Theatre Company | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | wide variety of roles | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Agitprop-documentary, tracing the economic history since the second world war, from the three day week to the miners | ||||
Eagle Has Landed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool University, Liverpool | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised 1973 | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
End, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Documentary Play | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | variety of extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Comprises three intercut sections: a school hall for overnight Aldermaston protest marchers; videoed "Polaris Sequences"; "Computer Cold War". | ||||
England's Ireland |
| 1st Produced: | Shoot Theatre Company, Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 20 scenes with songs | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Bicat, Clark, Brenton Fuchs, Hare, Wilson | ||||
Synopsis: Episodic historical look at the British in Northern Ireland. Loyalist view followed by bias towards IRA with torturing British Soldiers and Orange Lodge excrement | ||||
Entertaining Strangers: A Play For Dorchester |
| 1st Produced: | Colway Theatre Trust at St Mary's Church, Dorchester, Dorset | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London. New Version 1988 | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Community Play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | very large | |||
Notes: new version at the National Theatre, London, Oct 1987 | ||||
Synopsis: Victorian , freethinking tradeswoman encounters hard-line religious fundamentalist | ||||
Events Following The Closure Of A Motorcycle Factory |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play based on real events | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: the workers themselves in response to the closure of their factory form a co-operative of their own to keep the factory going | ||||
Excuses, Excuses |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Fired | ||||
Synopsis: Debate on the motives for arson committed in protest at redundancies at the local factory "to get back at the bosses". | ||||
Fart For Europe, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Burlesque | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Howard Brenton | ||||
Synopsis: Attacks the 1973 "Fanfare for Europe" celebrations. Labour MP with same views as Enoch Powell; European Trade Union Links; multi-nationals rule | ||||
Gangsters |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised in 1973 as Sanctuary | ||||
Synopsis: Two small time crooks conned out of their loot whilst trying to rob broken vending machines in motorway cafeteria. | ||||
Heartlanders |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: written with Stephen Bill and Anne Devlin | ||||
Synopsis: illustrates the contradictions of city life, written for the City of Birmingham's centenary year | ||||
Jail Diary Of Albie Sachs, The |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Rex Collings, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: work by Albie Sachs | ||||
Synopsis: young white barrister arrested in South Africa in 1963 and held in solitary under the infamous 90 day law, interrogators try to break his spirit | ||||
Liberated Zone |
| 1st Produced: | Bingley College of Education, Yorkshire | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Strip-cartoon style series of sketches about woman's oppression in history and literature. | ||||
Life Of Galileo, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. From a literal translation by Deborah Gearing | ||||
Synopsis: a version set against the background of militant holy war breathing vitality into the question of science's relation to ethics. | ||||
Man Only Dines |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds Polytechnic, Yorkshire | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Day in the life of Victorian family dealing with Victorian attitudes to etiquette, croquet, marriage, sex, feminism and (especially) food. | ||||
Mary Barnes |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Modern Plays, Eyre Methuen, London | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: book by Mary Barnes and Joseph Berke. Transferred to the Royal Court, London, Jan 1979 | ||||
Synopsis: passionate and moving affirmation about the value of alternative psychiatry | ||||
Maydays |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||
| Company: | ||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: using major political world events as a backdrop to the main action traces the effect of the political spectrum on a variety of individuals | ||||
Midas Connection |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Mothers Against |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||