Plays: One - Saved, Early Morning, The Pope's Wedding

Plays: One - Saved, Early Morning, The Pope's Wedding

by Edward Bond (Author)

Synopsis

Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ...the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ...Bond's plays cannot be ignored (Independent) Saved - The most uncompromising, original and un-English English play of the sixties (Observer); Early Morning - A gargantuan Swiftian metaphor of universal consumption (Observer); The Pope's Wedding - This bizarre and unclassifiable piece is an astonishing tour de force for a first play, and if it comes to that, would be an astonishing tour de force if it were a fifty-first ...Bond is an original (Bernard Levin, Daily Mail)

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Revised - Rev ed
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 08 Sep 1977

ISBN 10: 041345410X
ISBN 13: 9780413454102

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Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today Bond's plays cannot be ignored Independent
Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored --Independent
Author Bio
Edward Bond is widely regarded as the UK's greatest and most influently playwright. His plays include The Pope's Wedding (Royal Court Theatre, 1962), Saved (Royal Court, 1965), Early Morning (Royal Court, 1968), Lear (Royal Court, 1971), The Sea (Royal Court, 1973), The Fool (Royal Court, 1975), The Woman (National Theatre, 1978), Restoration (Royal Court, 1981) and The War Plays (RSC at the Barbican Pit, 1985).