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

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 g t 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward Bond
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2003
• EAN: 9780413771742
• ISBN: 978-0-413-77174-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Methuen Contemporary Dramatist; Contemporary Dramatists; Methuen Contemporary Dramatist
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts