Product details
ISBN
9780713683301
Published
2006-09-06
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Methuen Drama
Weight
88 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
6 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
96
Author
Biographical note
Edward Bond is one of the great Britsih playwrights of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries. In 1965 his grim portrait of urban violence, Saved, in which a baby is stoned in its pram, aroused much admiration as well as a ban from the Lord Chamberlain. His provocative plays [including Early Morning (1969), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), Summer (1982), The War Plays (1985) and Olly's Prison (1992)] continue to arouse extreme responses from critics and audiences.
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.
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A new edition with programme notes of Bond's play set in eighteenth century England, published to tie in with the tour by Oxford Stage Company.
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)
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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.
The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage. Today it features over 1000 plays and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work.
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Product details
ISBN
9780713683301
Published
2006-09-06
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Methuen Drama
Weight
88 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
6 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
96
Author