At a time when plays with large casts are high risk
enterprises, usually difficult to get produced unless
combined with big box office names, Edgar wrote
Pentecost, for more than twenty speaking parts and
very little opportunity for double role playing. What's
more it was big not only in terms of casting but
thematically...
Theater
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If Tony Kushner's Angels in America is arguably
the best American play of the 1990s, David Edgar's
Pentecost is likely the outstanding British
work of the same decade. It shares the breathtaking
ambition as Kushner's masterwork. For its power and
scope, instantly apparent at its 1994 London debut, it
won the 1995 Evening Standard Award as Best Play...
