About Robert

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.

Reviews

Commanding Voices Theatre Reviews include:

"In this engaging play ... Eddison relates with compassion this story of family strife ... and sheds some light on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)." Evening Standard

"The real sense of compassion and understanding in the writing leads us to an emotional involvement with the protagonists." The Stage

"Commanding Voices has depth, human feeling and insight ... and makes telling statements about relationships within families." The Times Literary Supplement

"This carefully constructed ... first play ... fails to put a foot wrong ... and succeeds by taking the larger issues of politics and art in its stride." Hampstead and Highgate Express

 

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

Robert now aims to become a full-time professional playwright

To this end, he has recently spent three years studying Acting and Drama
at the City Literary Institute under George Pensotti and others; 
at RADA (an invited pioneer course under Stephen Jeffreys and Lloyd Trott);
at Morley College under Craig Snelling and, again by invitation,
at the Royal National Theatre Studio, where he was privileged
to work under Phillip Joseph, with actors from the Royal National Theatre

Credits

AWL

Writing Credits

Play	Director
Joe Orton's Last Laugh	David Hampshire

Acting Credits (Sketches)

Writer	Sketch	Role
Melissa Docker	A Bleeding Miracle	Painter2

Credits

Writing

White Suicide
a short black farce
It won a good review in The Times, headed: "Amusing first play shows promise".

Wilderness
Performed at the 2002 Leytonstone Festival in London

It's Hardly Everest
Performed at the 2002 Leytonstone Festival in London

Commanding Voices
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

Contact

Meg Davis, MBA
62 Grafton Way
London W1T 5DW
T: 020 7387 2076 F: 020 7387 2042
E: meg@mbalit.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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