Product Description: Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting. His plays are the subject of much debate and frequent misinterpretation, with his extensive use of allegory and metaphor to comment on the state of society and humanity in general leading to many academics, theatre practitioners and students trying - and often failing - to make sense of his plays over the years...read more

A collection of plays including: 'The Crime of the Twenty-First Century', 'Olly's Prison', and 'Coffee'.

Two plays from one of Britain's most challenging dramatists. Both are set in a late-21st-century post-apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and any emotional displays are eradicated.

Product Description: 'I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' The Chair Plays are three one-act plays that Edward Bond has combined into one continuous drama on the state of society towards the end of the present century...read more

A wild storm shakes a small East Anglian seaside village and sets off a series of events that changes the lives of all its residents. Set in the high Edwardian world of 1907, this work blends wild farce, high comedy, biting social satire and bleak poetic tragedy.

An edition with programme notes of Bond's play set in eighteenth century England, published to tie in with the tour by Oxford Stage Company.

Comprises five plays and two prose essays. The plays in this title include: 'Born', the third play in the 'Colline Tetralogy'; 'People', the fourth play in the 'Colline Tetralogy'; 'Chair', broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000; 'Existence', broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002; and 'The Under Room'.

Product Description: Edward Bond Letters 5 contains over thirty letters and papers covering Bond's controversial views on violence and justice, plays, writers and directors, and a postscript that is Bond's discussion of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales...read more

Product Description: Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society...read more

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Product Description: This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama with songs, to Eleven Vests, his play for young people written for Big Brum Theatre-in-Education"There is a cliché - which is also false - that all creative writing is autobiographical...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: ". . .a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (The Independent)This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.The twenty-first century. The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Plays Six includes some of the most acclaimed work of Edward Bond, one of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, who is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.The collection includes The War Plays and Choruses from After the Assasinations...read more

Product Description: Two plays for young peopleIn Eleven Vests, one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separated by years, the incidents bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Eleven Vests shows how the adult develops from the younger self and looks at how tragedy escalates from seemingly minor confrontations...read more

Product Description: "A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event. . .the severity and seriousness of his message is delivered with extraordinary directness" (Carole Woddis, Times Educational Supplement)On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.The Bundle - "A complex and marvellously written play" (The Times); Jackets - "An astonishingly powerful piece of political, polemic poetry" (Guardian); Human Cannon charts the struggle against Fascism in Spain through the stories of the village community of Estarobon; In the Company of Men, a vivid and coruscating attack on the values encapsulated by boardroom power games, was described by the Rsc as "a vast meditation on the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: Edward Bond is increasingly recognized as Britain's most challenging and important living dramatist. Published for the first time, these documents provide essential insights into his mind and theories. Edward Bond Letters, Volume III includes two sections on the important areas of writing and translating and continues to trace Bond's interest in productions of his work...read more

Product Description: A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest. . .Coffee centres around the death of a child and asks disturbing questions about the history of the 20th century through an examination of what constitutes "acceptable" behaviour towards children in our time...read more

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Product Description: A young girl is in her bedroom studying for exams when her soldier boyfriend arrives home unexpectedly from active service abroad. What happens during the next 90 minutes in the little room changes the girl for ever - her attitude to her father, war and violence, and life itself...read more