by David Edgar · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413152206
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«Edgar Plays: 1» is a volume of plays by David Edgar, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (416 pages, in English).
It brings together five plays from the seventies: The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs adapts Albie Sachs's diaries about solitary confinement; Mary Barnes addresses schizophrenia in a commune; Saigon Rose explores the loss of innocence and betrayal; O Fair Jerusalem is set during the Black Death; and Destiny deals with the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain.
This is the first volume in the Contemporary Dramatists series and includes an introduction by the author.
It will appeal to readers of twentieth-century British theatre and to students of literature and performing arts.
David Edgar 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. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–75 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79).
