Synopsis
Bond Plays 6 - The War Plays & Choruses from After the Assassinations
Published by Methuen
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 Bond's 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