594:) who all, pretending to be on a walking holiday, booked an isolated country cottage for a week where they sat down and wrote a play together. They took what later came to be termed the "firing squad" approach to playwriting. In a firing squad one member of the party has a blank round; given that no member knows who this is, none of them need assume responsibility for the killing. Edgar and his friends tried to write in a style as similar to the others as possible so none of them need take responsibility for his contribution to the play. The result was
571:(1972), which toured with General Will and also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, all in 1972, was a one-act documentary with songs about industrial resistance to the Conservative government. General Will came to a halt when the only gay member of the company took exception to the heterosexual slant of the material and went on strike in mid-performance. They did, however, lead to Edgar's first foreign premiere.
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dividing his kingdom between his daughters, and the other was Edgar's lightly veiled suggestion that
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672:(1973) was written for Leeds Playhouse Theatre where it premiered in March 1973 then transferred to the Soho Polytechnic Lunchtime Theatre. It was a one-act play in which Eileen, after the still birth of her illegitimate baby, steals a baby at random and is sentenced to nine months in prison, where Valium is found to be the answer. This was televised by the
625:(1972), at the Unity Theatre, London, was about housing conditions for the working classes (and this was also produced at a community centre in Battersea at the request of the Wandsworth Community Workshop led by the Tenants Union, as part of the campaign in 1971–72 against the Housing Finance Bill, eventually enacted as the Housing Finance Act 1972);
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and an Indian who works in a local foundry. During the election campaign a strike breaks out at the foundry and the "cosy
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where it proved so popular they didn't bother putting on evening performances for a while, and at a gays-only lunchtime theatre club called
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664:(1973), written for the Soho Polytechnic was a one-act play in which two small-time crooks are cheated of their loot whilst trying to rob broken vending machines in a motorway cafeteria. This was televised as
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1906:"Other Lives: Barrie Edgar"
1894:-Edgar's Grandmother's film
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2114:5 September 2008 at the
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1892:Isabel Thonrnton at IMDb
1821:24 December 2017 at the
1277:Conversation in Paradise
1127:The dramatists included
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164:University of Birmingham
2133:7 February 2009 at the
1750:"David Edgar Biography"
871:Edgar's plays included
853:in a small church; and
755:, but the play won the
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2177:Wilson, Steve (1991),
2147:British Theatre Record
2109:Scott of the Antarctic
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1550:The Shape of the Table
1519:Entertaining Strangers
1451:The Perils of Bardfrod
1247:Still Life: Man in Bed
1075:Lawrence & Wishart
885:Royal National Theatre
856:The Prisoner's Dilemma
836:The Shape of the Table
726:Queen's Silver Jubilee
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486:Tom Brown's Schooldays
415:Still Life: Man in Bed
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3139:and Fraser Grace for
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2623:British Theatre Guide
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2038:British Theatre Guide
1778:"The British Council"
1265:The National Interest
1235:A Truer Shade of Blue
1223:Selected bibliography
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407:A Truer Shade of Blue
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315:Mandrake, The Musical
286:Manchester University
139:(1988) and editor of
3098:Jumping on my Shadow
2899:The Rat in the Skull
2773:Freehold on Antigone
2458:(Press release). RSC
2256:"Maydays at the RSC"
2210:on 13 December 2006.
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1682:Written on the Heart
1427:The National Theatre
1343:The Eagle Has Landed
1108:Edgar was editor of
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641:Gaining a reputation
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1569:A Movie Starring Me
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