David Edgar

Pentecost is a 1994 play by the British playwright David Edgar. It is named after the Jewish and Christian festival of Pentecost. It is set during the early 1990s and concerns the discovery of a mural in a small church. It is part of a trilogy of plays on the theme of negotiation set in Eastern Europe in the aftermath …

Two men, eighty years apart, translate God's word into the English tongue. For one, it could mean death at the stake; for the other, an archbishop's mitre. David Edgar's historical drama, seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on the West End, marks the King James Bible's four hundredth anniversary and explores …