David Edgar’s plays include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which had a run time of more than eight hours, Maydays, The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Playing with Fire. He is the author of How Plays Work and set up an MA in playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Two new plays, Here in America and The New Real, will have their premieres later this year.
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