EDWARD BOND   (1935 - )


Edward Bond
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Plays by Edward Bond

EDWARD BOND
A-A-America
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Methuen's New Theatrescript, Eyre Methuen, London
1976
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Genre:
-
Satire
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Grandma Faust and The Swing. Written for Inter Action
Synopsis: Anti racialist play dealing with American Blacks and Whites, but applicable elsewhere
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EDWARD BOND
Activists Papers, The
1st Produced:
Varies
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
1980
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The papers are introductions to plays and may be inserted in programmes
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EDWARD BOND
After The Assinations
1st Produced:
-
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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EDWARD BOND
Arcade
1st Produced:
-
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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EDWARD BOND
At The Island Sea
1st Produced:
tour British Schools
1995
Company:
Big Brum Theatre Company
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confronts him with an impossible dilemma. It's a life or death situation. Can he use his imagination to stop the most horrific events from taking place?
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EDWARD BOND
Balancing Act, The
1st Produced:
-
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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EDWARD BOND
Bingo
1st Produced:
Exeter, Devon
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1974
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Genre:
Historical Play
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: scenes of Money and Death
Synopsis: Last few days in the life of Shakespeare
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EDWARD BOND
Black Mass
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
1971
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Sharpeville Sequence: A Scene, A Story, and Three Poems. Written for Anti Apartheid Movement
Synopsis: Christ's place on the cross is taken by an endless succession of policemen after he poisons the south African Prime Minister with communion wine
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EDWARD BOND
Born
1st Produced:
Avignon Festival, France
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon.
Synopsis: In this tragic epic for the twenty-first century set in a de-humanised world of surveillance and terror, Luke asks his question but finds no oracle to answer it.
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EDWARD BOND
Bundle, The
1st Produced:
London
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1978
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Genre:
Philosophical Drama
-
Parts:
Male
23
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: New Narrow Road to the Deep North
Synopsis: Adopted infant grows up to be rebel leader; villagers versus tyrannous landowner.
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EDWARD BOND
Burns
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Cat, The
1st Produced:
Schetzingen
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
Opera libretto
Opera
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: performed as The English Cat. Music by H W Henze
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Chair
1st Produced:
Avignon Festival, France
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 7 April 2000
Synopsis: A repressive society where all compassion is a crime, all acts outside the prescribed norm suspicious and even the misuse of an ordinary chair may bring catastrophe. . .
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EDWARD BOND
Chaste Maid In Cheapside, A
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Children, The
1st Produced:
-
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in a late-21st-century apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and where any emotional displays are immediately eradicated. A teenager's unquestioning loyalty to his mother has fatal consequences
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EDWARD BOND
Choruses From After The Assassinations
1st Produced:
Colchester
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
1983
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Genre:
SF
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: three choruses from a putative play about a soldier deserting in the year 2030
Synopsis: Bond forecasts questions fifty years into the future, in an age of escalating militarism
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EDWARD BOND
Coffee
1st Produced:
London
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
1995
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Genre:
-
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
voices
Notes: Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon.
Synopsis: 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.
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EDWARD BOND
Crime Of The Twenty-First Century, The
1st Produced:
-
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
1999
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon.
Synopsis: 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.
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EDWARD BOND
Derek
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London Youth Festival, Stratford on Avon
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
1983
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Genre:
SF
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: about political manipulation psychology
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EDWARD BOND
Early Morning
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscript 18, Calder and Boyars, London
1968
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Genre:
Surreal farce
-
Parts:
Male
12
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Puns on mourning; expose of Victorian social injustice. Alternative history Queen Victoria seduces Florence Nightingale. Alternative Heaven - where everyone turns cannibal.
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EDWARD BOND
Eleven Vests
1st Produced:
Birmingham prior to tour of Midlands
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separated by years, the incidents bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Eleven Vests shows how the adult develops from the younger self and looks at how tragedy escalates from seemingly minor confrontations.
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EDWARD BOND
English Cat
1st Produced:
Schetzingen
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
Opera libretto
Opera
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: performed as The English Cat, aka The Cat. Music by H W Henze
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Enoch Show, The
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Sketch in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Existence
1st Produced:
Theatre-Studio Alfortville, Paris
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 April 2002
Synopsis: After a night out with his mates a man walks home. In the street he chooses a door and breaks into a room where someone sits waiting for him in the dark. . . and where he stumbles to the edge of his universe.
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EDWARD BOND
Fables
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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EDWARD BOND
Fool, The
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1976
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
37
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: scenes of Bread and love
Synopsis: An examination of the life of the peasant poet, John Clare, a stormy indictment of society.
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EDWARD BOND
Grandma Faust
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1976
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part 1 of A-A-America
Synopsis: Anti racialist play dealing with American Blacks and Whites, but applicable elsewhere
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EDWARD BOND
Great Peace
1st Produced:
The Pit, London
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
1985
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Genre:
War
-
Parts:
Male
11
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: The War Plays
Synopsis: Order restored, military in charge; soldiers obey orders.
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EDWARD BOND
Have I None
1st Produced:
-
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in a late-21st-century apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and where any emotional displays are immediately eradicated. a couple's lives are irreversibly changed by the appearance of a disturbing stranger who questions their existence.
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EDWARD BOND
Human Cannon
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
1985
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: Brutality and horror in the Spanish Civil War.
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EDWARD BOND
In The Company Of Men
1st Produced:
Avignon
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
-
Satire
Parts:
Male
6
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: corscucating attack on the values encapsulated by boardroom power games
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EDWARD BOND
Jackets I
1st Produced:
Leicester
1989
Company:
-
1st Published: