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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Edward, author.

Series:

Diaries, Letters and Essays.

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Drama.

Theater and society.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Theater and state.

Theater--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Methuen, 2020.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to the use made of it in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.

Contents:

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)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781408169940

1408169940

9781408171417

1408171414

OCLC:

865331860