Edgar Plays: 2

&quote;David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times.&quote; - The GuardianThis selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby; and Entertaining Strangers, an English left-wing social drama.Ecclesiastes is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a &quote;fundamentalist&quote; Christian clergyman in the US.Nicholas Nickleby: &quote;With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well ... A landmark.&quote; - New StatesmanIn Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: &quote;English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion.&quote; - The Sunday Times