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In
The Second Time as Farce, one of Britain's leading playwrights offers a stimulating
personal survey of cultural and social change. Covering subjects as diverse
as the problems of staging Nicholas Nickleby, Auberon Waugh's diatribes against
the working classes and the connections between Woodstock and Live Aid, Edgar
takes the pulse of the body politic and the body cultural. He also discusses
the shortcomings of agitprop as a theatrical form and the potential of theatre
as carnival, satirises Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and dissects the vexed
problem of the left and morality.
'Superb journalism and endlessly thought provoking...he has a bold and highly
developed sense of humour.' Time Out