Bond Plays: 8
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.