大象传媒

Award-winning playwright David Edgar made his performing debut in this solo show exploring the autobiographical background to his landmark theatre play, Maydays, which recently became a 3 part series on Radio 4. The 70-year-old is confronted by his young self 50 years after his political outlook was defined by the tumultuous events of 1968. Do they share the same beliefs? If not, is it the world that鈥檚 changed, or him? Why did his generation vote Brexit? Has he sold in or sold out?

David ..... David Edgar
Younger ..... Paul Heath

With thanks to Danielle Phillips.
Produced by Jonquil Panting

Photograph by Arnim Friess.

David Edgar is one of our greatest living playwrights, recently receiving a Writers' Guild of GB award for his Outstanding Contribution to British playwriting. He has had more than sixty of his original plays, adaptations and translations performed around the world, including for the Royal Shakespeare Company: Destiny, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Maydays, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Pentecost, The Prisoner's Dilemma, Written On The Heart and A Christmas Carol, and for the National Theatre: Albert Speer and The Shape of the Table.

鈥淲hat makes this show radically different is its element of unextinguished hope.鈥�
The Guardian

鈥淎s charming as it is challenging...Hugely stimulating.鈥�
The Times

鈥淓nergised with humour and humility.鈥�
The Stage

鈥淭rying It On challenges us all to question our beliefs: how they originate, how they are influenced by external factors, and whether age really does mellow us.鈥�
What鈥檚 On Stage

Trying It On was originally made with China Plate Theatre, in a production directed by Christopher Haydon.

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