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Robert Eddison

A Cambridge honours graduate in Modern Languages and Law, Robert Eddison speaks four languages and won a study scholarship from Cambridge to the former Yugoslavia. A year as Visiting Lecturer at a Canadian university was followed by an American lecture tour and a consultancy post at the Foreign Office.

After training on local newspapers in the late 1970s, Robert became a freelance journalist. His feature articles, often whimsical in tone, have appeared in many national newspapers and periodicals, including The Times, The Spectator, The Independent, The Sunday Express, The Sunday Times, The Daily Express, The New Statesman and The Observer. He is also an experienced public speaker and broadcaster.

Robert Eddison now aims to become a full-time professional playwright. To this end, he has recently spent three years studying Acting and Drama . He is a namesake younger relative of the late actor, Robert Eddison, and lives in London.

Robert Eddison’s first play, White Suicide – a short black farce – won a good review in The Times, headed: “Amusing first play shows promise”. He is currently working on a new play and on a book of original aphorisms on subjects ranging from political correctness to cannibalism. Joe Orton’s Last Laugh, co-written with Robert J Francis, was read at AWL in January 2004.

Robert’s first produced full-length play, Commanding Voices, is arguably the first stage play to deal, among other things, with OCD. The play enjoyed a longer-than-average five-week run in June/July 2002 at the New End Theatre in London’s Hampstead. The celebrated cast included West End and Royal National Theatre veterans: Jeremy Child, Katherine Hogarth and John Burgess. The play won great critical acclaim.