First lecture in which Playwright David Edgar outlines the story of new writing in postwar British theatre and the growth of the anti-writer trend since the 1990s. This lecture was filmed in Oxford on 2nd February 2015.
State of Play
He also presents the case for the individual playwright (vigorously) but also discusses whether the primacy of the playwright is outdated and what playwrights can learn and have learnt from alternative playmaking methods.
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The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama David Edgar gives a series of lectures and conversations about the state of modern playwriting in contemporary theatre, how playwrights work and how they collaborate with one another.