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David Edgar Playwright And Politician
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Author :Elizabeth Swain Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :368 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis David Edgar, Playwright and Politician by : Elizabeth Swain
Download or read book David Edgar, Playwright and Politician written by Elizabeth Swain and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Edgar: Playwright and Politician examines the British dramatist's forty stage plays written between 1971 and 1983, effectively providing a minihistory of Britain's sociopolitical climate since World War II and of Britain's post-1968 political theatre movement, with its various methods and changing venues. Swain discusses Edgar's use of dramatic form, his subject matter and his political viewpoint in order to examine different approaches to political playwriting, ranging from the blatant didacticism of agitprop to the subtler mimesis of social realism. Particular attention is given to Edgar's landmark plays, Destiny and Maydays, both produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A chapter is also devoted to Edgar's widely performed adaptations, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Mary Barnes and Nicholas Nickleby.
Book Synopsis The Political Theatre of David Edgar by : Janelle Reinelt
Download or read book The Political Theatre of David Edgar written by Janelle Reinelt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Edgar's writings address the most basic questions of how humans organize and govern themselves in modern societies. This study brings together the disciplines of political philosophy and theatre studies to approach the leading British playwright as a political writer and a public social critic. Edgar uses theatre as a powerful tool of public discourse, an aesthetic modality for engaging with and thinking/feeling through the most pressing social issues of the day. In this he is a supreme rationalist: he deploys character, plot and language to explore ideas, to make certain kinds of discursive cases and model hypothetical alternatives. Reinelt and Hewitt analyze twelve of Edgar's most important plays, including Maydays and Pentecost, and also provide detailed discussions of key performances and critical reception to illustrate the playwright's artistic achievement in relation to his contributions as a public figure in British cultural life.
Download or read book Edgar Plays: 3 written by David Edgar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The Guardian This third collection of plays by David Edgar includes Our Own People, Teendreams, Maydays and That Summer, encompassing some of his best work from the late 1970s and early 80s, and demonstrating the range of one of Britain's major political playwrights. Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations." - City Limits Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary dreams of a set of teenagers. Maydays compares the phenomenon of post-war social rebellion from Western and Eastern perspectives. That Summer is an "elegantly tangential treatment of the 1984 miners' strike" (Plays and Players). "Edgar never lets his drama simplify into ideological diagram ... This elegant, humane play keeps its emphasis on the ... results that can ensue when diverse lives briefly brush against each other." (Independent)
Download or read book Destiny written by David Edgar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production of this play established David Edgar as a major playwright, one of the most important of the young generation of dramatists to emerge out of the 'portable' theatre movement of the late sixties.
Download or read book If Only written by David Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights. It's 16th April 2010, the day after the UK's first ever televised prime ministerial debate. Stranded in Malaga Airport by a volcanic ash-cloud, a Labour special adviser, a Lib Dem staffer and a Tory candidate consider their options. Can their parties survive without them? How will they get back home? And who'll end up in government? Fast forward to 4th August 2014. As the nation settles down to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War, the three politicians meet again. One of them knows something that could change the outcome of the 2015 election. Should they reveal it? And at what cost? "Funny, gripping and bang on the money." - Telegraph "Fascinating... clearly meticulously researched." - Guardian "Witty and very clever... hilarious." - British Theatre Guide "Luminously human rather than aridly theoretical... riveting, important." - Financial Times David Edgar pioneered the teaching of playwriting in the UK, founding the Playwriting Studies course at Birmingham University in 1989. He is also a leading playwright, best known for his political plays and for his adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby for the RSC.
Book Synopsis Edgar the Playwright by : Susan Painter
Download or read book Edgar the Playwright written by Susan Painter and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of David Edgar's work examines the social and theatrical context of his career in the theatre, and provides an analysis of the plays. David Edgar is one of Britain's major political dramatists, part of the generation which includes David Hare, Trevor Griffiths and Howard Brenton.
Book Synopsis The Political Theatre of David Edgar by : Janelle G. Reinelt
Download or read book The Political Theatre of David Edgar written by Janelle G. Reinelt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edgar Plays: 2 written by David Edgar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Nicholas Nickleby: "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" (New Statesman); In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion" (Sunday Times) and Ecclesiastes, a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for David Edgar's "Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for David Edgar's "Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for David Edgar's "Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis The Shape of the Table by : David Edgar
Download or read book The Shape of the Table written by David Edgar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1989. An Eastern Bloc government on the brink of collapse. As the old regime retreats, former political prisoners join banned writers around the negotiating table... The Shape of the Table is part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays, which also includes Pentecost and The Prisoner's Dilemma. Witty and informative, this play is both an intensely topical account of what actually went on in the corridors of power and a timeless analysis of revolution in action. In particular the play explores not only the challenge of seizing power, but also the difficulty of relinquishing it. The Shape of the Table was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1990.
Book Synopsis How Plays Work: New and Revised Edition by : David Edgar
Download or read book How Plays Work: New and Revised Edition written by David Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning.
Book Synopsis Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century by : Christopher Innes
Download or read book Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century written by Christopher Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Edgar Plays: 1 written by David Edgar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and loneliness - "a remarkable, persuasive picture." (Observer); Mary Barnes is based in a commune in the sixties and focuses on schizophrenia "promulgating the theory that schizophrenia can be effectively treated through behaviourist methods alone"; Saigon Rose tackles venereal disease and is "intriguing and entertaining...Edgar handles his themes - loss of innocence and a sense of betrayal - in a bitty, playful style laced with black comedy" (Independent); Oh Fair Jerusalem deals with the black death and Destiny deals with the loss of Empire and the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain "A play which astonished me with its intelligence, density, sympathy and finely controlled anger." Dennis Potter (Sunday Times).
Book Synopsis British Playwrights, 1956-1995 by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
Book Synopsis Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s by : Chris Megson
Download or read book Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s written by Chris Megson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume equips readers with an understanding of the context from which work emerged, a detailed overview of the range of theatrical activity and a close study of the work of four of the major playwrights by a team of leading scholars. Chris Megson's comprehensive survey of the theatre of the 1970s examines the work of four playwrights who came to promience in the decade and whose work remains undiminished today: Caryl Churchill (by Paola Botham), David Hare (Chris Megson), Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) and David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt). It analyses their work then, its legacy today and provides a fresh assessment of their contribution to British theatre. Interviews with the playwrights, with directors and with actors provides an invaluable collection of documents offering new perspectives on the work. Revisiting the decade from the perspective of the twenty-first century, Chris Megson provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1970s.
Book Synopsis New British Political Dramatists by : John Bull
Download or read book New British Political Dramatists written by John Bull and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bespreking van een hedendaagse stroming bij het Engelse toneel, gezien tegen de politieke achtergrond van de jaren 1968-1983, met speciale aandacht voor het werk van een viertal auteurs.
Book Synopsis English Drama Since 1940 by : David Ian Rabey
Download or read book English Drama Since 1940 written by David Ian Rabey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
