by David Edgar
directed by Jerome Davis
American premiere of play originally presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company about conflict resolution in Eastern Europe. By the author of Pentecost.

"The greatest virtue of David Edgar's enthralling new play is ... that it confronts the kind of intractable ethnic conflict that has blown up in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise. This must be seen!"
-Daily Telegraph

The Prisoner's Dilemma begins prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union at a conference on conflict resolution. At that event, a chatty group of academics from around the world gather to discuss theories and to socialize. None realize that within months, the 'global order' will be turned upside down. In the years that follow, this disperate group come together again, with much more at stake.

David Edgar is most known in the US for his Tony Award-winning The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (adapted from Dickens). He has written regularly for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Royal Court, and the BBC. He founded Britain's first graduate playwriting course at the University of Birmingham. He has written numerous books and essays. He is the author of the screenplay to Lady Jane, a film directed by Trevor Nunn. His most recent play, Testing the Echo, opened in London at the Tricycle Theatre in April, 2008.

Tony Cormier and Jenn Suchanec in the
Burning Coal Theatre Company production of
David Edgar's Pentecost, Feb., 2007