@booklet {11973, title = {The Chair Plays}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {112 pp.}, publisher = {Methuen Drama}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are \“Have I None\” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; \“The Under Room\” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and \“Chair\” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornuc{\'o}pia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-408-17279-7}, author = {Edward Bond (1934-2024)} } @booklet {8925, title = {The Crime of the Twenty-First Century}, year = {1999}, note = {

Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.

}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Methuen Drama}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Edward Bond (1934-2024)} } @booklet {3645, title = {The War Plays. A Trilogy}, year = {1985}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Methuen}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia following a nuclear war in which, in the first two plays, life becomes violent and dangerous with people generally isolated. In the third play a small beginning is made toward rebuilding human contact.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Edward Bond (1934-2024)} } @booklet {8782, title = {Lear}, year = {1972}, note = {

Rpt. in his Plays: Two (London: Methuen Drama, 1989), 1-102.

U.S. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Eyre Methuen}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A reimagining of Shakespeare\’s\ Lear\ as a vicious, paranoid autocrat who tries to keep out imaginary enemies by building a wall. Sometimes called the most violent play ever staged.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Edward Bond (1934-2024)} }