The Prisoner's Dilemma (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Edgar, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854596799 ISBN 13: 9781854596796

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2002

Synopsis

Revised and re-issued alongside its London transfer - Edgar's RSC play has acquired sharp topicality following 11th September First seen in Stratford in July 2001, David Edgar's new play arrives in London as one of the last that the RSC will present at the Barbican. He has brought the play bang up to date, including the attacks on New York and Washington, and provided a substantial new introduction.

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Review:

'The greatest virtue of David Edgar's enthralling new play is that it confronts the kind of intractable ethnic conflict that has blown up in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise.... The good news is that The Prisoner's Dilemma is not the mirthless lecture you might have inferred... Edgar's erudition and appetite for major subject-matter have paid off. This must be seen' Daily Telegraph; 'David Edgar is one of our few surviving writers of public plays, and The Prisoner's Dilemma continues his exploration of the reconfiguration of global politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall... Engrossing...' Sunday Times; 'Edgar has valuable things to say about the dangers of America and the West imposing quick-fix solutions - sometimes from 1500 feet in the air' Independent

About the Author:

David Edgar is best-known for his adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby for the RSC, for whom he also wrote Destiny, Maydays, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Pentecost. His plays at the National include The Shape of the Table, Entertaining Strangers with Judi Dench and Albert Speer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1854596799
• ISBN 13: 9781854596796
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160