Edward Bond & the celebrity of exile


Autoria(s): Saunders, Graham
Data(s)

2004

Resumo

A shibboleth has grown up around the work of Edward Bond. The tag ‘controversial dramatist’ has continued to dog both the man and his work. This article will hope to explore some of the contradictory, and sometimes frustrating manifestations that such ‘celebrity’ has produced. Since the reception of The War Plays [1985] by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the National Theatre Bond has largely withdrawn his work from mainstream British theatre. Since the late 1990s he has looked to a new home – La Colline Theatre – in France, to premiere new work and run retrospective seasons of older plays. Here, Bond's celebrity is of a different kind, and has allowed him to enhance and develop his work as a playwright, director and writer about theatre. While this article draws on secondary sources it also uses material based on personal correspondence with Edward Bond.

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http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/31332/2/31332EDWARD%20BOND%20AND%20THE%20CELEBRITY%20OF%20EXILE.pdf

Saunders, G. <http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90001808.html> (2004) Edward Bond & the celebrity of exile. Theatre Research International, 29 (3). 256-266. ISSN 1474-0672 doi: 10.1017/S0307883304000665 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0307883304000665>

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en

Publicador

Cambridge University Press

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http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/31332/

creatorInternal Saunders, Graham

10.1017/S0307883304000665

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Article

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