Plays: 3: Our Own People: Teendreams: Maydays: That Summer : With an Introduction By the Author

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgar, David

Series:

Methuen drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playwriting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen, 1991.

Summary:

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary dreams of a set of teenagers. Maydays compares the phenomenon of post-war social rebellion from Western and Eastern perspectives; That Summer is an "elegantly tangential treatment of the 1984 miners' strike" (Plays and Players) "Edgar never lets his drama simplify into ideological diagram...This elegant, humane play keeps its emphasis on the...results that can ensue when diverse lives briefly brush against each other." (Independent).

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted. Introduction included with Our Own People. The following plays have been taken from this source: Maydays Our Own People Teendreams That Summer.

OCLC:

1024269787