Plays--two
by David Edgar

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times."

- The Guardian

This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes

, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby

; and Entertaining Strangers

, an English left-wing social drama.

Ecclesiastes is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.

Nicholas Nickleby

: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well ... A landmark."

- New Statesman

In Entertaining Strangers

, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion."

- The Sunday Times