On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confronts him with an impossible dilemma. It's a life or death situation. Can he use his imagination to stop the most horrific events from taking place?
This play was toured to British schools during 1995 by Big Brum, the Birmingham theatre company. Notes and commentary on the production have been written by Tony Coult. Edward Bond "is one of the two or three major playwrights - and arguably the only one - to emerge since the fifties"...
On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confront...
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...
Two new plays from Britain's most challenging dramatist
Have I None and The Children are both set in a late-21st-century apocalyptic landscap...
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...
An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: ..".a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, w...