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  • How Plays Work (revised and updated edition)

    by David Edgar ...
    In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning. Written for playwrights and playgoers alike, Edgar's analysis starts with the building blocks of whole plays – plot, character-creation, genre and structure – and moves on to scenes and devices. He ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Albert Speer

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. Having narrowly ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pentecost

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A valuable fresco is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor for the future of the emergent nations of Eastern Europe.David Edgar's play Pentecost was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 1994. The ... Read more

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  • The New Real

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    It's the 2000s. We're in a faraway country. Rachel, a stellar American political strategist, and Caro, her British data expert, have been hired to fight a ferocious election, in a place where it's hard to tell what's real and what's fake.They think they're here to teach the Eastern Europeans how to do democracy, but it turns out they're here to learn. And when Rachel's former political partner ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Maydays & Trying It On: two plays

    Two Plays

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Two plays by David Edgar, written thirty-five years apart, both exploring the theme of youth and revolution.Maydays tells the story of the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics; of defection from East to West as well as from Left to Right. It is told through a number of interlocking stories, across three continents and twenty-five years of tumultuous ... Read more

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  • Here in America

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I'm saying there's someone who could stop this madness. If you stood up, and said "no".'On a rainswept afternoon in 1952, Hollywood and Broadway's leading director Elia Kazan met his closest collaborator, the playwright Arthur Miller. As the anti-Communist crusade of McCarthyism blacklisted hundreds of their colleagues, Kazan and Miller faced a stark choice. Should they betray their friends, or ... Read more

    $16.89 USD

  • The Bear Edition 5: 28 May 2012

    by David Edgar ...
    Take a stroll down Edmiston Drive with the people who know it best - the fans! The Bear is the unofficial online Rangers fanzine, packed with features to get your blue blood stirring. Edited by David Edgar and Scot Van den Akker, and featuring articles from Bears all over the world, it takes a sideways look at everything happening at Ibrox. With an unashamed view from behind blue-tinted glasses, ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • Trying It On

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    It's 1968. David is twenty. It is the height of the worldwide student revolt. The Vietnam war rages. Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Martin Luther King is assassinated. These events will define David's politics and give focus to his writing.It's fifty years on. The seventy-year-old is confronted by the twenty-year old. Do they share the same beliefs? If not, is it the world ... Read more

    $14.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bear Edition 3: 18 Apr 2012

    by David Edgar ...
    Take a stroll down Edmiston Drive with the people who know it best - the fans! The Bear is the unofficial online Rangers fanzine, packed with features to get your blue blood stirring. Edited by David Edgar and Scot Van den Akker, and featuring articles from Bears all over the world, it takes a sideways look at everything happening at Ibrox. With an unashamed view from behind blue-tinted glasses, ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Email

    by David Edgar ...
    For the first time, the missing history of email and the technology war for the most significant development in connecting humanity since the invention of the telephone. Learn the shocking truth about email's rise and ultimate corruption by the Clinton administration at the White House. Determine if email's future, as we know it, maybe at an end.Experience an unparalleled journey into technology ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If Only

    by David Edgar ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.It's 16th April 2010, the day after the UK's first ever televised prime ministerial debate. Stranded in Malaga Airport by a volcanic ash-cloud, a Labour special adviser, a Lib Dem staffer and a Tory candidate consider their options. Can their parties survive without them? How will they get back home? And who'll end up in ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bear Edition 4: 4 May 2012

    by David Edgar ...
    Take a stroll down Edmiston Drive with the people who know it best - the fans! The Bear is the unofficial online Rangers fanzine, packed with features to get your blue blood stirring. Edited by David Edgar and Scot Van den Akker, and featuring articles from Bears all over the world, it takes a sideways look at everything happening at Ibrox. With an unashamed view from behind blue-tinted glasses, ... Read more

    $2.72 USD