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The book delves into the historical interplay between theatre and societal crises, highlighting how stage plays have served as a medium for exploring contemporary challenges and predicting future events. It examines the role of live theatre from ancient Greek times to the present, illustrating how audiences have sought understanding and insight during turbulent political, social, and economic periods. This collection invites readers to reflect on the questions raised by theatre in the face of uncertainty.

This work brings together recent work by Edward Bond, the writer of the classic stage plays 'Saved', 'Lear', 'The Pope's Wedding' and 'Early Morning'

To be sane or not to be sane, that is the question – and if not, then be mad and all that follows. Edward Bond takes from the Greek and Jacobean drama the fundamental classical problems of the family and war to vividly picture our collapsing society. The war is raging, Dea, a heroine, has committed a terrible act and has been exiled. When she meets someone from her past, she is forcefully confronted by the broken society that drove her to commit her crimes. Dea received its world premiere at Sutton Theatre on 24 May 2016.

Exploring themes of identity and self-discovery, the narrative follows a character grappling with their past and sense of self. The protagonist feels erased, striving to reclaim their identity through a symbolic knife, which represents both a tool for survival and a means of understanding their existence. The tension between forgetting and remembering drives the story, as the character seeks to define who they are amidst feelings of anonymity and loss.

The latest collection from the influential playwright Edward Bond includes the final play in The Paris Pentad Innocence, four shorter works ideal for students, an introduction and selected Theatre Poems.

Theatre& 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.

A wild storm shakes a small East Anglian seaside village and sets off a series of events that changes the lives of all its residents. Set in the high Edwardian world of 1907, The Sea is a fascinating blend of wild farce, high comedy, biting social satire and bleak poetic tragedy.

Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes. This is a new programme text edition of the play with minor revisions to the original text and produced for the tour by Oxford Staeg Company.

Two new plays from Britain's most challenging dramatist Have I None and The Children are both 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. In The Children a teenager's unquestioning loyalty to his mother has fatal consequences, while in Have I None a couple's lives are irreversibly changed by the appearance of a disturbing stranger who questions their existence.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)