Maydays / David Edgar.

Author/creator Edgar, David, 1948-
Other author Edgar, David, 1948-
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : Bloomsbury, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentDrama online

Summary David Edgar's monumental 'Maydays' dissects the saga of post-war political awakenings, as the many dedicated devotees of the ideals of communism become disillusioned, and dissent. In a play that spans five decades, we see socialists of various dedication and origin - from the apparatchik of the Soviet Union down to the radical university lecturer - each finding that the distance between their conscience and their comrades has become too great to traverse. Written in the early eighties, 'Maydays' was first presented, in an RSC production at the Barbican in London in 1983, against a backdrop of many prominent members of the Left abdicating and turning Tory.
General noteOriginally published: in print in Plays three. London: Methuen Drama, 1991.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Feb. 25, 2013).
Genre/formDrama.
Standard identifier# 10.5040/9781408161609.00000060

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