Bond Plays: 7

The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Olly's Prison; Coffee

Edward Bond

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781472536716
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Drama

The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights. THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence. OLLY'S PRISON: an ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years. COFFEE: A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest...When the men return to the daylight world, they are involved in a trivial incident. It is hardly more than a gesture - yet it is something that once happened and in its triviality captures the history of our century and confronts us with the deepest questions about ourselves. "A great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." Independent "A play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event." TES

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Chronology
• Introduction – The Cap
• OLLY'S PRISON
• NOTES ON IMAGINATION
• COFFEE
• THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• THE SITE
• THE SWING
• DEREK
• FABLES AND STORIES