From the Archive (New Writing 1997-2003)

Provocation of the day: Playwright David Edgar attacks the ideological hostility of university drama departments to studying playwrights and new writing.

Quote of the day: “Yes, postwar British drama has seen great classical productions, brilliant acting, spectacular innovation in design and performance.”

Quote of the day: “Playwrights and the theatres that produce them should defend the concept of the individually-written new play.”

Quote of the day: “Not just some, but all writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated, deep down, by a fear of and a fascination with mortality — by a desi…