theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright David Edgar
David Edgar (b 1948) has been writing plays about Britain's changing political landscape since 1972. Fresh out of the heady days of Sixties student radicalism, he cut his teeth writing agitprop, but the charm of that particular oeuvre wore thin he wrote Destiny (1976), a play about the rise of the National Front which was also adapted for television and the first of a string of plays he has since penned for the Royal…