What motivates theatre-makers who work in education? How can theatre respond to young people's experiences of living in a globalised world? Theatre&amp; Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with young people in educational settings. It charts early debates that motivated twentieth-century radical theatre-makers to work with young people, and offers an analysis of contemporary practices. It argues that the aesthetic principles and educational ideals that inform theatre and education drive at the heart of why theatre matters. Foreword by Edward Bond

Theatre and Education (Theatre And, 35)

Nicholson, Helen

Bond, Edward

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

Poems: 1978 1985

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Heinemann

RESTORATION

Dramas & Plays

Lear

EYRE METHUEN

Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'.

Lear (Modern Plays)

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

The sea,: A comedy (Methuen's modern plays)

Narrow Road to the Deep North

Contemporary

METHUEN

Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre before members of the English Stage Society in a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes of violence, including the stoning of a baby, Saved became a notorious play and a cause célèbre. In a letter to the Observer, Sir Laurence Olivier wrote: 'Saved is not a play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it.' Saved has had a marked influence on a whole new generation writing in the 1990s. Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)

Saved (Modern Classics)

dward Bond's play "Bingo" subtitled "Scenes of money and death" is about the last days of Shakespeare. Bond's Shakespeare has withdrawn from the theatre and lives in Stratford the life of a well-to-do country gentleman. But the material security he has worked to achieve brings him no peace or happiness and the play evokes the image of an exhausted genius tormented with conscience about his own cruelty to his family, the cruelty of the society he believes in and his own equivocal achievements. "Was anything done?" he asks repeatedly.

Bingo: Scenes Of Money And Death

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 collected volume contains three plays which continue Edward Bond's exploration of themes from Shakespeare and other classical authors. Bingo puts Shakespeare himself on stage in a critical account of the writer and Stratford landowner's final days. The Fool is based on the life and madness of the 19th-century working-class poet John Clare and The Woman is set at the end of the Trojan War with Hecuba as a main character, but instead of offering a resolution its Tempest-like second half defines the nature of social conflict. All three plays deal with the origins of the tensions of the modern world. Also included is Stone, a one-act parable of oppression.
 Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)

Bond Plays: 3: Bingo; The Fool; The Woman; Stone (Contemporary Dramatists)

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