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David Edgar

The founder of Britain’s first university playwriting course 20 years ago, playwright David Edgar analyses how plays function. In his book How Plays Work, he argues that the same basic mechanisms and techniques have been employed by dramatists throughout the ages from Aeschylus to Ayckbourn.

Chaired by Simon Callow.

This Platform is followed by a booksigning

Tickets £3.50 / £2.50 (concessions)

David Edgar finished on: 3 September 2009

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Performance dates:

    Sep 2009
    Thu 3

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