Arthur & George
Paperback, 144 pages ISBN: 9781848420960Publication Date:
25 Mar 2010
Size: 198mm x 128mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
Ebook, 114 pages ISBN: 9781780017020Publication Date:
7 Apr 2016
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Birmingham Rep & Nottingham Playhouse, 2010

Arthur & George (stage version)

By Julian Barnes Adapted by David Edgar

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The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective - based on Julian Barnes’s Booker Prize-nominated novel.

In 1903, Birmingham solicitor George Edalji was found guilty of a terrible crime and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Desperate to prove his innocence, he recruited Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to help solve his mysterious case and win him a pardon.

As absorbing as any Sherlock Holmes mystery, Arthur & George also raises many questions about guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race.

This stage adaptation of Arthur & George, by acclaimed playwright David Edgar, was first performed at Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse in 2010.

Press Quotes

'That the creator of Sherlock Holmes should turn sleuth himself is a life-mirroring-art marvel that continues to fascinate more than 100 years on. David Edgar has distilled 500 pages into two-and-a-half hours of theatre - involving you in the whodunnit aspect of the case while serving the finer intellectual textures of the novel'

Daily Telegraph
Paperback,144 pages ISBN: 9781848420960Publication Date:
25 Mar 2010
Size: 198mm x 128mm£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)
Ebook,114 pages ISBN: 9781780017020Publication Date:
7 Apr 2016
£8.99 £7.19You save £1.80 (20%)

Also by David Edgar:

Trying It On
If Only
Pentecost
Here in America
A Christmas Carol
How Plays Work
The New Real
A Time to Keep
Maydays & Trying It On: two plays
Testing the Echo
Continental Divide: two plays
Albert Speer
The Shape of the Table
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Playing With Fire
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Written on the Heart
Edgar: Shorts
The Master Builder
Mothers Against
Daughters of the Revolution
Maydays

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