The Hidden Plot
Notes on Theatre and the State
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 2014
208 pages
978-1-4081-7141-7 (ISBN)
Description
An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (The Independent)
This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war. It is a revolutionary understanding of the human world with drama at its centre. A ruthless critique of the theatre's present state and its trivialisation as entertainment by the media, it reveals and sees a radical new theatre for the future. Edward Bond is internationally recognised as a major playwright and a leading theoretician of drama. He is the most performed British dramatist abroad. This is his latest and most important account of the meaning and practice of theatre as we start a new millennium.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-7141-7 (9781408171417)
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09/2000
Methuen Drama
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Person
Edward Bond is widely regarded as the UK's greatest and most influential playwright. 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 Court, 1981) and The War Plays (RSC at the Barbican Pit, 1985).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Letter to Tom Erhardt
- A Writer's Story
- Our Story
- Language
- Modern Drama
- Drama
- Le Théâtre de la Cité
- Letter on Translation
- Pearl White: Notes on the TE of the Text
- The Site
- Letter on Design
- I Wrote a Poem
- Notes on Theatre-in-Education
- Oranges
- Rough Notes on Justice
- Rough Notes on Intolerance
- Notebook, 31 January 1996
- The Eschatology of Bread: Christ and the Bearded Lady (Notebook, 3 August 1995)
- Social Madness
- William Shakespeare's Last Notebook
- The Labyrinth
- The Faustian Trap
- The Reason for Theatre
- Lear War
- Notes on Coffee for Le Théâtre National de la Colline
- Letter on Brecht
- The Seventh of January Sixteen Hundred and Ten
- People Saturated with the Universe (Notes on The Crime of the Twenty-first Century for Le Théâtre de la Colline)
