''David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times'' (Guardian) Nicholas Nickleby: ''With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark'' (New Statesman); In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: ''English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion'' (Sunday Times) and Ecclesiastes, a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a ''fundamentalist'' Christian clergyman in the US.