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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463437503321

Autore

Bond Edward

Titolo

The hidden plot : notes on theatre and the state / / Edward Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-4081-6994-0

1-4081-7141-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Disciplina

809.2

Soggetti

Drama - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Theater - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Letter to Tom Erhardt; A Writer's Story; Our Story; Language; Modern Drama; Drama; Le Théâtre de la Cité; Letter on Translation; Pearl White: Notes on the TE of the Text; The Site; Letter on Design; I Wrote a Poem; Notes on Theatre-in-Education; Oranges; Rough Notes on Justice; Rough Notes on Intolerance; Notebook, 31 January 1996; The Eschatology of Bread: Christ and the Bearded Lady (Notebook, 3 August 1995); Social Madness; William Shakespeare's Last Notebook; The Labyrinth; The Faustian Trap; The Reason for Theatre; Lear War

Notes on Coffee for Le Théâtre National de la CollineLetter on Brecht; The Seventh of January Sixteen Hundred and Ten; People Saturated with the Universe (Notes on The Crime of the Twenty-first Century for Le Théâtre de la Colline)

Sommario/riassunto

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: ""...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright."" (The Independent). This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state,



religion, family, crime and war. It is a revolutionary understanding of the human world with drama at its centre. A ruthless critique of the theatre's present state and its trivialisa