The Chair Plays - Have I None/The Under Room/Chair
From: Thursday, 19th April 2012
To: Saturday, 5 May 2012
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Our Review:
26 April 2012
To say that Edward Bond sits outside of the theatrical mainstream is to underestimate the distance between Moscow and Siberia. His most significant work is still revived and revered – witness recent high-profile outings for Saved and Bingo – but his new writing has been given a consistently wide berth.
Watching the first two of this newly collected trilogy of one-act plays, it’s not hard to see why. In speaking their harsh truths harshly, they are stylistically unfashionable. As bald, unrepentant and confrontational as Bond himself. Their drama is made of bare essentials – husband, wife, stranger or victim, aggressor, mediator – and their language is direct and undressed. Big abstract statements are served neat. The plays are like bones with the meat boiled off.
Both are set in a dystopian future – 2077 to be precise – in which humanity has been deemed its own worst enemy. However, the restrictions imposed...
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Cassox - 29 April 2012:
Dull and studenty. A bit like Lost meets sub par Pinter....
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Edward Bond (Author)
Lyric Hammersmith (Producer)
Edward Bond (Director)
Sean Holmes (Director)
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