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Bond Plays: 8
Born; People; Chair; Existence; The Under Room
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.
