David Edgar
Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, February 26,1948.
Educated at Oundle School, Northamptonshire, 1961-65;
Manchester University, 1966-69, B.A. (honours) in drama
1969.
Plays:
- Two Kinds o f Angel (produced 1970)
- A Truer Shade of Blue (produced 1970)
- Still Life: Man in Bed (produced 1971)
- The National Interest (produced 1971)
- Tedderella (produced 1971)
- Bloody Rosa (produced 1971)
- Acid (produced 1971)
- Conversation in Paradise (produced 1971).
- The Rupert Show (produced 1972).
- The End (produced 1972)
- Excuses, Excuses (produced 1972); as Fired,
produced 1975).
- Rent; or, Caught in the Act (produced
1972).
- State of Emergency (produced 1972).
- Not with a Bang But a Whimper (produced
1972).
- Death Story (produced 1972).
- The Road to Hanoi, in Point 101
(produced 1972).
- England's Ireland, with others (produced
1972)
- A Fart for Europe, with Howard Brenton
(produced 1973).
- Gangsters (produced 1973)
- Up Spaghetti junction, with others (produced
1973).
- Baby Love (produced 1973).
- The Case of the Workers' Plane (produced 1973;
shorter version, as Concorde Cabaret, produced
1975)
- Operation Iskra (produced 1973)
- Liberated Zone (produced 1973)
- The Eagle Has Landed (televised 1973; produced
1973).
- Man Only Dines (produced 1974)
- The Dunkirk Spirit (produced 1974)
- Dick Deterred (produced 1974)
- The
Show (produced 1974)
- The Midas Connection (televised 1975)
- O Fair Jerusalem (produced 1975)
- The National Theatre (produced 1975)
- Summer Sports: Beaters, Cricket, Shotputters,
Cross Country, Ball Boys (produced 1975; as Blood
Sports, produced 1976; revised version of Ball
Boys produced 1977)
- Events Following the Closure of a Motorcycle
Factory (produced 1976)
- Destiny (produced 1976); revised version
(produced 1985)
- Welcome to Dallas, J.C., adaptation of a play
by Alfred Jarry (produced 1976).
- The Perils of Bardfrod, with Richard Crane
(produced 1976).
- Saigon Rose (produced 1976)
- Wreckers (produced 1977)
- Ecclesiastes (broadcast 1977)
- Our Own People (produced 1977)
- Mary Barnes (produced 1978) revised version,
1984.
- The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, adaptation of
the work by Sachs (produced 1978)
- Teendreams, with Susan Todd (produced
1979)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,
adaptation of the novel by Dickens (produced
1980)
- Maydays (produced 1983) revised version,
1984
- Entertaining Strangers: A Play for Dorchester
(produced 1985; revised version produced 1987)
- That Summer (produced 1987)
- Vote for Them, with Neil Grant (televised
1989)
- Heartlanders, with Stephen Bill and Anne
Devlin (produced 1989)
- The Shape of the Table (produced 1990)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
adaptation of the story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
1991.
Screenplay:
Lady Jane, 1986.
Radio Plays:
- Ecclesiastes, 1977;
- Saigon Rose, 1979;
- A Movie Starring Me, 1991.
Television Plays:
- The Eagle Has Landed, 1973;
- Sanctuary, from his play Gangsters,
1973;
- I Know What I Meant, 1974;
- The Midas Connection, 1975;
- Censors, with Hugh Whitemore and Robert
Muller, 1975;
- Vote for Them, with Neil Grant, 1989.
Other:
The Second Time as Farce: Reflections on the
Drama of Mean Times. 1988.
Critical Studies:
David Edgar, Playwright and Politician by
Elizabeth Swain, 1986;
File on Edgar edited by Simon Trussler, 1991.
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