by EdwardBond (Author)
Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes. This is a new programme text edition of the play with minor revisions to the original text and produced for the tour by Oxford Staeg Company.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 94
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 06 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0713683309
ISBN 13: 9780713683301
Book Overview: Published as a programme text to accompany the tour by Oxford Stage Company which plays to Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire, Oxford Playhouse and the Northcott Theatre in Exeter. Bond's great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself Robert Cushman, Observer Edward Bond is a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright (Independent)