Books by Edward Bond

Contains Bond's plays from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bond is one of Britain's most widely read and staged playwrights, whose first play, "Saved", made a successful appearance at the Royal Court in 1965. His plays offer political and moral critiques of human society and relationships.

Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction by the author.Dea, a heroine, has committed a terrible act and has been exiled. When she meets someone from her past, she is forcefully confronted by the broken society that drove her to commit her crimes. In this play, Edward Bond takes from the Greek and Jacobean drama the fundamental classical problems of the family and war to vividly picture our collapsing society. Dea received its premiere at Sutton Theatre in 2016.The Testament of this Day is Edward Bond's third original radio drama. A young man embarks on two journeys, though he is in control of only one. He soon discovers there is no going back, from either. The play is an arresting drama about the world today and was first produced by BBC Radio 4 in 2016.The Price of One is set in among city ruins in a war zone. An occupying soldier carries a baby he has rescued from the rubble and dust. He meets a woman carrying a baby of her own. What ensues is a struggle between two enemies demanding justice in the midst of war. A modern tragedy, this play is an exploration of eternity and madness and the supermarket culture. It received its premiere in 2016.The Angry Roads considers how young people today grow up in a world that their parents never knew. In a flat a teenage boy is sorting through play things from his childhood; he is sorting through his past in search of the truth about an accident that destroyed his family. The Angry Roads was commissioned by Big Brum Theatre Company and premiered in 2015.The Hungry Bowl is a portrait of a a ghost town. Outside a harsh wind rattles the windows. Inside, people go hungry and start boarding up their homes. When a young girl insists on feeding her imaginary friend, a bitter struggle for a future ensues for the power of the imagination to transform lives. The play is a moving and audacious modern fable that explores the impact of hard times on family life, commissioned by Big Brum and premiered in 2012.The volume features an introduction by the author that looks at theatre and culture in a post-Brexit referendum, post-truth and post-Trump era.

Three one act plays by master dramatist Edward Bond, combined into a single drama and exploring humanity amid a broken world.

Two plays for young people. The first deals with two events involving the same person - one as a teenager and the other years later. The text of the second is accompanied by rehearsal and teaching notes. A young girl is changed for ever by her soldier boyfriend, returning from active service.

Edward Bond's 1973 comedy set in an East Anglian seaside village is available as a play text to coincide with the 2008 revival at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.

Three plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights, including "The Crime of the Twenty-first Century", "Olly's Prison" and "Coffee".

"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)

The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti

This volume provides insights into Edward Bond's ideas and concepts of theatre. The letters discuss his plays, influences and motivations, describe many of the terms associated with his dramatic methods, such as TEs (Theatre Events), and cover a range of theatrical, social and political issues.

This volume contains the script for the play "Restoration" as well as the written music for the play's 14 song

This volume contains letters answering questions from students and theatre professionals engaged in acting, directing or writing critical studies of Bond's work. It features productions of "The Worlds", "Summer", "Human Cannon", "War Plays", "Restoration", "Jackets" and "Olly's Prison".

This text focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child; theatre-in-education; At the Inland Sea; language and imagery.

A play set in London in the 60s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estate

The timing and setting of Bond's latest play is non-specific, with the theme being timeless. It is a tragedy about the futility of war. In wartime, as communication and society break down, both soldiers and civilians are led to acts of barbarism and self-destruction.

In the METHUEN CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS series, this collection includes The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, Great Peace) and Choruses from After the Assassinations. Includes a commentary by the author.

By the author of "Saved", "Lear", "The Woman", "Bingo", "Jackets" and "In the Company of Men", this play portrays the violence inherent in the prison system and in police practice as a savage mirror image of the violence of a domestic killer.

A play for young people, describing the transition from childhood to adulthood. In the process of choosing how to live, young people are shown as potential creators of our world, or its destroyers.

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.

The volume contains plays from the '70s and '80s, which offer a wide ranging critique of society and human relationships. Included are "The Bundle", "Human Condition", "Jackets" and "In the Company of Men". The volume also includes Bond's notes on postmodernism.

Volume one of Edward Bond's notebooks charts the progress of his work, from 1959, when his plays were first produced at the Royal Court Theatre, to 1980, when he had achieved fame as a major writer. As well as commenting on his plays, it also considers his poems and stories.

This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It elucidates on the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.

This volume focuses on "Saved and the Pope's Wedding", a radio production of "The Fool" (1990), "The Company of Men" (1993) and the television plays "Olly's Prison" (1992) and "Tuesday" (1993) and provides background information for both the student and the general reader.

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.

'Bond's greatest (and biggest) play ... it is even more topical now and will become more so as man's inhumanity gains subtle sophistication' The Times

The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to have emerged from the sixti