Edgar David Release Date: 01 January 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 133 Category: Plays, Playscripts Publisher: Nick Hern ISBN: 9781854595850 ISBN-10: 1854595857
David Edgar is back in Nicholas Nickleby mode with this energetic and wide-ranging story of a whole community in early 19th-century Dorset. With over 50 characters from Mad King George III to labourers and jailbirds, A Time to Keep, co-written with his partner, is premiered by the Dorchester Community Players, who have been staging large-scale plays ever since Edgar wrote their first: Entertaining Strangers in 1986subsequently staged at the National Theatre with Judi Dench in the lead.