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Plays 8

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Edward Bond Plays:8brings 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.

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ISBN: 9780413775832
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Author: Edward Bond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of A&C Black
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 222 pages
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
Genres: Plays, playscripts