Bond Plays: 10: Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Broken Bowl (Contemporary Dramatists)

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.. 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. Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. 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. An occupying soldier carries a baby he has rescued from the rubble and dust. Outside a harsh wind rattles the windows. 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. A modern tragedy, this play is an exploration of eternity and madness and the supermarket culture. Dea, a heroine, has committed a terrible act and has been exiled. Dea received its premiere at Sutton Theatre in 2016.The Testament of this Day is Edward Bond's third original radio drama. The Angry Roads was commissioned by Big Brum Theatre Company and

Probably the greatest of any post-war British dramatist -- Mark Ravenhill Bond's work is the work of a powerful writer, and a great and brilliant man of the theatre * Luca Ronconi * "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 *

Edward Bond is widely regarded as the UK's greatest and most influentlial playwright and his work is widely produced across Europe. His plays include The Pope's Wedding (Royal Court Theatre, 1962), Saved (Royal Court, 1965), Early Morning (Royal Court, 1968), Lear (Royal Court, 1971), The Sea (Royal Court, 1973), The Fool (Royal Court, 1975), The Woman (National Theatre, 1978), Restoration (Royal