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David Edgar

@DavidBEdgar

is a playwright

Katılım Şubat 2012
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The Stage@TheStage·
Playwrights @DavidBEdgar , Sonali Bhattacharyya and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm have urged artistic directors to take greater risks on original writing following Indhu Rubasingham’s Jennie Lee Lecture 👇 #Echobox=1772456138" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thestage.co.uk/news/playwrigh…
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@arcolatheatre The illegal war in Ukraine has now been running longer than the Nazi/Soviet bit of WW2. We've had three great previews of our evening of short plays about the invasion at the Arcola, and we open on Monday. All the best to a great cast/crew. arcolatheatre.com/event/ukraine-…
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@dsakvarelidze Can I check if you are the David who looked after me so well on my trip to Georgia in (about 1999?)
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@Searchlight_mag Gerry Gable's importance to the anti-fascist movement was incalculable. It was a privilege to know and work with him.
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It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce that Searchlight’s founder, Gerry Gable, has died at the age of 88. He had been in frail health for some time, but a recent hospital admission proved too much and he died peacefully last night. Gerry was one of the most important figures in post war anti-fascism, not just in this country but also internationally. You can read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/01/gerry-…
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2026 marks the 500th anniversary of the Tyndale New Testament, the first English Biblical translation to be printed. With Shakespeare, the greatest single influence on our English. Memories of Greg Doran's great production of my play about the English Bible @TheRSC 12 years ago.
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Statistics show that the average time that the average person needs to wrap presents is 87 minutes. By a staggering coincidence, that is exactly the length of my play The New Real, available for another nine days only right here. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Last month the wonderful director Lily Susan Todd died at 83. The companies she worked for ranged from the pioneering Monstrous Regiment to the endearing National Theatre of Brent. My obituary is in the print Guardian today as well as still online. theguardian.com/stage/2025/dec…
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The lovely and brilliant director, actor and writer Lily Susan Todd (co-founder of Monstrous Regiment) died last week. We wrote a play together for the Monsters in the (theatrically) glorious 70s and I was honoured to write her obituary for the Guardian. theguardian.com/stage/2025/dec…
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The Writers' Guild@TheWritersGuild·
We are so sad to learn of the death of Tom Stoppard, a v long-term and loyal member and supporter of the WGGB A recipient of our Outstanding Contribution to Writing Award in 2017, he was presented by fellow playwright and former WGGB President @DavidBEdgar who said of him: “Like no one else, he has challenged, dazzled and amazed.” theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov…
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Just to say that the radio version of my last year RSC play about American political consultants inventing Trumpism in Eastern Europe, The New Real, goes out on Radio 4 at 3.00pm on Saturday. Then available for 30 days on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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What really happened to new plays, musicals, adaptations and revivals either side of Covid? See The Stage coverage of our report on British theatre in 2019 and 2023. thestage.co.uk/news/sharp-dec…
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The Stage@TheStage·
Playwrights are facing issues including the potential loss of programmed work due to ongoing problems with Arts Council England’s application portal, Grantium (@TheWritersGuild) Read more 👇 #Echobox=1754926394" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thestage.co.uk/news/news/writ…
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@TheWritersGuild General Secretary Ellie Peers writes to the Arts Council with concrete proposals to help writers and other freelancers whose plans have been threatened through no fault of their own by the crash of the Grantium application system. thestage.co.uk/news/writers-w…
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