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12 Jul 2014:David Edgar: Early experience of theatre, either as participants or spectators, is vital to encourage children, but the opposite is happening
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26 Mar 2014:
Writers including Alan Bennett, Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Archer declare support for campaign by Howard League for Penal Reform
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18 Sep 2013:
Brecht's belief that drama should present moral ideas through action is unfashionable, but as theatre becomes ever more narcissistic, audiences are seeking him out again, writes Michael Billington
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18 Sep 2013: The former Writers' Guild president says universities undervalue traditional playwriting, despite industry-wide increase
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30 Jun 2013: Susannah Clapp: David Edgar's assault on coalition politics – yellow and blue and hard to put together – is his most snappily phrased yet
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12 Feb 2013:
David Edgar: Birmingham Repertory theatre's centenary is well worth celebrating – and not just because my parents met on its stage-door steps
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11 Jul 2012: Mark Lawson: Whether it's coalition government, banking or war, scenes or subjects – even apparently inconsequential – can take on a new resonance for audiences in the light of current events
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18 Mar 2012: Charm Offensive's ambitious adaptation of David Edgar's detective story-cum-thriller is less impressive than the church in which it's staged, writes Killian Fox
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8 Nov 2011:
In Written on the Heart, David Edgar has come up with a learned, information-packed and engrossing play that sees the King James Bible in its historical context, writes Michael Billington
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23 Mar 2010:
Birmingham Rep
The one culprit in this adaptation of Julian Barnes's race case starring Conan Doyle is too much action, writes Michael Billington -
13 Mar 2010:
In Julian Barnes's most recent novel, the main characters, Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji – an Anglo-Indian solicitor wrongly convicted of a heinous crime – don't meet until 300 pages in. How could David Edgar possibly adapt it for the stage? Only, he writes, by blowing the whole storytelling strategy the moment the houselights dim
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4 Nov 2009:
Andrew Haydon: The collapse of communism 20 years ago offered rich pickings for British playwrights. Are the tremors afflicting capitalism about to do the same?
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4 Oct 2009: Actors and writers oppose reducing financial support for single-parent migrants unable to take jobs
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27 Sep 2008:
Why has this decade seen the rise of a vibrant theatre of reportage? Playwright David Edgar points to a decline in conventional journalism and TV documentary
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22 Jul 2008:
David Edgar: The glorification clause of the Terrorism Act has created a climate where artists and academics must watch their words
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