David Edgar

David Edgar’s plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Playing with Fire and, most recently, Testing the Echo. He is working on a book about playwriting.

In the LRB Archive:

• Exit Humbug: Theatrical Families · 1 January 2009

  • A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd

• Who Lost?: the third presidential debate · 16 October 2008

• Has Anyone Lost Yet?: the US election debates · 13 October 2008

• Who Will Lose? · 23 September 2008

  • Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future by Newton Minow and Craig LaMay

• Much like the 1950s: the Sixties · 7 June 2007

  • White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
  • Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook

• Ticket to Milford Haven: Shaw’s Surprises · 21 September 2006

  • Bernard Shaw: A Life by A.M. Gibbs

• Stalking Out: After John Osborne · 20 July 2006

  • John Osborne: A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern

• What are we telling the nation?: Thoughts about the BBC · 7 July 2005

  • Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC by Georgina Born
  • Building Public Value: Renewing the BBC for a Digital World

• Vindicated!: The Angry Brigade · 16 December 2004

  • The Angry Brigade: The Cause and the Case by Gordon Carr
  • Granny Made Me an Anarchist by Stuart Christie

• Back to Reality: Arthur Miller and the Oblong Blur · 18 March 2004

  • Arthur Miller: A Life by Martin Gottfried

• What’s Coming on J.M. Synge · 22 March 2001

  • Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge by W.J. McCormack
  • Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000 edited by Nicholas Grene

• Be flippant: Noël Coward’s Return · 9 December 1999

  • 1956 and All That by Dan Reballato
  • Collected Plays: Six by Noël Coward
  • Collected Plays: Seven by Noël Coward
  • Collected Revue Sketches and Parodies by Noël Coward
  • Noël Coward: A Life in Quotes edited by Barry Day
  • Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics edited by Barry Day

• Each Scene for Itself: The Brecht Centenary · 4 March 1999

  • War Primer by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett
  • Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett
  • Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson

• Showman v. Shaman on Peter Brook · 12 November 1998

  • Threads of Time by Peter Brook

• Locked in a Room with a Pile of Anchovy Sandwiches, Two Bottles of Claret and Act III of ‘The Critic’ · 27 November 1997

  • A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Fintan O’Toole
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life by Linda Kelly
  • Sheridan’s Nightingale: The Story of Elizabeth Linley by Alan Chedzoy

• Which is the hero? · 20 March 1997

  • Henrik Ibsen by Robert Ferguson

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