Bond Plays: 7 The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Olly's Prison; Coffee

by Bond, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780413771742
• ISBN10: 0413771741
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Summary

The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: 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. OLLY'S PRISON: an ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years. COFFEE: 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."A great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" - Independent "A play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event" - TES

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The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Olly's Prison; Coffee