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A Cambridge honours graduate in Modern Languages and Law, Robert Randolph 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 Randolph Eddison 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.

He is a namesake younger relative of the late actor, Robert Eddison, and lives in London.

Robert Randolph 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.

Two other short plays: Wilderness and It's Hardly Everest were performed at the 2002 Leytonstone Festival in London.

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, 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, as demonstrated by the following excerpts from just four of the many 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

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