
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Edward Bond Plays: 8 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning. The volume comprises five new plays and two prose essays:
Two Cups: introductory essay
Born: the third play in the Colline Tetralogy (the first two of which appear in Edward Bond Plays: 7 ); premiering at the Avignon Festival in July 2006.
People: the fourth play in the Colline Tetralogy
Chair: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
Existence: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.
The Under Room: first staged by Big Brum in October 2005; 'an intricate puzzle that is compelling in both its intellectual and emotional intensity'5 stars ( Guardian )
Freedom and Drama: an extended disquisition on the relationship of drama to the self and society in which Bond argues that drama alone can create human meaning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction: Two Cups
- BORN
- PEOPLE
- CHAIR
- EXISTENCE
- THE UNDER ROOM
- Freedom and Drama