Plays Six includes some of the most acclaimed work of Edward Bond; one of Britains greatest living contemporary dramatists; who is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.The collection includes The War Plays and Choruses from After the Assasinations. In The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant; The Tin Can People; Great Peace): "Bond particularises daunting themes and subjects; but examines them within the context of every day life. His platform is a trilogy of plays that deal with the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. The first; - a quick; telling chronicle of a life destroyed before it ever got lived - puts forth Bonds notions of contemporary cultural corruption and conditioning. In play two the demoralised inheritors of a ravaged earth try to rationalise an existence predicated on death. The third play enlarges the issues by focussing on a post-apocalyptic Mother Courage for whom schizoid suffering becomes a survival technique." (Time Out). In Choruses From After The Assassinations; Bond forecasts questions fifty years into the future; in an age of escalating militarism.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many; particularly in continental Europe; would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)
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