15 stories by "David Edgar"
Director, actor and a co-founder of Monstrous Regiment, whose work would concentrate on women's experience
In 1975 the stage director Susan Todd, who has died aged 83, teamed up with the act…
So, I thought I'd done my time. Over six consecutive years I participated in 15 Edinburgh Fringe shows, as actor, director and
The playwright introduces his new version of A Christmas Carol for the RSCSince mid-August, I've been doing something I swore I'd never do again. I've been rehearsing a new adaptation of a n…
Along with Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevelod Meyerhold was the leading theatrical innovator of the early 20th century, certainly in Russia and arguably the world. A victim of Stalin's purges…
Censorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserv…
The playwright, who has died aged 83, became a definitive voice of disenchanted mid-century youth " but British theatre wasted his later work Related: Arnold Wesker: the radical bard of work…
Lydia Adetunji, Jack Thorne, Bola Agbaje, Alia Bano, Adam Brace, Lucy Kirkwood… a new generation of political playwrights is adding to Britain's rich tradition, writes veteran dramatist Da…
The death of the British dramatist is greatly exaggerated. A surge of new plays has revitalised our mastery of the art of showing society to itself Continue reading...
My play's dystopian predictions for a lurch to the right by panicked Tories were overtaken by real events. I fear for 2014This time last year I was planning act two of If Only, a play about …
Birmingham Repertory theatre's centenary is well worth celebrating " and not just because my parents met on its stage-door stepsIn a sense, I owe Birmingham Rep everything: my parents met on…
I didn't join in opposing the invitation to Israel's Habima Theatre, but I agree with the protesters' right to do soThe letter from Mike Leigh, Mark Rylance, Emma Thompson, Jonathan Miller a…
An insider's view of the writer as actorIt's both the best and worst of times to produce a Dickens biography. Best because (for anyone just returned from the further reaches of the gala…
Publicly funded arts institutions are under more pressure than ever to quantify the social benefits they bring, as would be done for schools and hospitals. But isn't the crucial role of art …
The anti-cuts case can't be just the elitism of the arts' intrinsic value, nor their social utility, but bothThree years ago at the Young Vic theatre 500 arts people dragged the then Arts Co…
Censorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserv…
