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David Edgar

March 2024

  • Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens at the Comedy theatre, London, in 2000.

    Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

    London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

December 2023

  • Chris Parr They were taken by me on 21st January 2017 at Slieve League (Sliabh Liag) Co Donegal.

    Chris Parr obituary

    Theatre director and TV producer who took every opportunity to champion new, challenging work

November 2022

  • Percy Edgar (left) and the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII

    ‘Completely chancy’: the first BBC radio broadcast outside London, 100 years ago

  • Canny entrepreneur … Adrian Edmondson (Scrooge) and Jasper Dance (Tiny Tim) in the RSC’s A Christmas Carol.

    A Christmas Carol review – Adrian Edmondson stars in a biting tale for our times

October 2018

  • A change of tactics … Trying It On written and performed by David Edgar at the Royal Court.

    The haranguing of David Edgar – by his 20-year-old self

  • Composite: Labour plays. Left to right - Tamsin Greig in Labour of Love, Christopher Simpson and Lily Nichol in Maydays, and Joshua McGuire in I’m Not Running

    The vital return of David Edgar's Maydays – and the best plays about the left

June 2018

  • Anthony Welsh and Daniel Kaluuya in Sucker Punch by Roy Williams.

    Knockouts, nobles and nukes: the 25 best British plays since Jerusalem

    It is the hit that transformed British theatre. As Jez Butterworth’s epochal drama returns, our critic chooses the 25 best plays since Jerusalem – from exploited boxers to warring kings

March 2018

  • Fascist leader Oswald Mosley with his wife Diana and their son Max.

    Brief letters
    Oswald Mosley, the unpopular populist

    Brief letters: Mosley in Manchester | David Edgar’s acting | LGBTQ sandwiches | Clinton called out in 1989 | Rainbow memories | Planet mnemonic

February 2018

  • The playwright David Edgar

    Brief letters
    Emeritus professors going off at a tangent

  • David Edgar

    Playwright David Edgar to make stage debut in political one-man show

December 2017

  • Phil Davis as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

    A Christmas Carol review – Dickens's social ills touch the mind but not the heart

  • Rhys Ifans as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic

    Christmas culture 2017
    The best theatre shows this Christmas – from panto to Pinocchio and Narnia

September 2017

  • picture depicting a scene from Dickens's A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol play inspired by social media and M1 service stations

    Dramatist David Edgar was struck by the Dickensian sound of names such as Tinder and Tibshelf in adaptation of classic story

November 2015

  • Waste at The National Theatre. Photograph: Johan Persson/Johan Persson

    From the West End to Westminster: which playwrights should run Britain?

    Chancellor Caryl Churchill, foreign secretary Gore Vidal, defence minister David Greig … Ahead of the National Theatre’s revival of Harley Granville Barker’s explosive play, Waste, Mark Lawson selects a cabinet of political dramatists

July 2015

  • Roger Rees, left, as Nicholas Nickleby in 1980.

    Roger Rees obituary

    Versatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame on US TV in Cheers and The West Wing

January 2015

  • David Edgar’s Pentecost at the Cockpit theatre, London, November 2014.

    Theatre blog
    Is the playwright dead?

    Is there an anti-writer trend in British theatre? Only if you insist on a very narrow definition of what constitutes new writing and fail to cherish playwriting in all its rich variety, writes Lyn Gardner

November 2014

  • The Shape of the Table at the Cockpit

    The Shape of the Table review – David Edgar’s power play proves prophetic

  • David Edgar's Pentecost at the Cockpit theatre

    David Edgar: ‘Ukip is my territory. I suspect I am going to write about that’

July 2014

  • A scene from The Tiger Who Came To Tea stage play

    If we want theatre for the masses, we need grants to target audiences

    David Edgar

    David Edgar: Early experience of theatre, either as participants or spectators, is vital to encourage children, but the opposite is happening

September 2013

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    Bertolt Brecht: irresistible force or forgotten chapter in theatrical history?

    Brecht's belief that drama should present moral ideas through action is unfashionable, but as theatre becomes ever more narcissistic, audiences are seeking him out again, writes Michael Billington

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