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Dateline:
7th September, 2010
Bond Season at the Cock Tavern
Kilburn's Cock Tavern and Good Night Out Presents is to present a season
of plays by Edward Bond.
Bond, now 76, has been writing for six decades and Cock Tavern artistic
director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, says, "We would like to give a
platform to Bond’s work that has been largely ignored by the major
theatres in this country for several decades. It is baffling why a writer
of such distinction and influence has been denied the platform he surely
deserves. It’s now six decades, and Bond’s consistent voice
cannot and will not be ignored. There is something in that itself, a
lifetime committed to examining the human condition through his art:
drama and the written word.
"We have decided to mount a season of work that has only been
presented once in this country or that has been produced in Europe but
never in Britain. Edward Bond is also writing a new world premiere especially
for us."
There are six plays in the season, including the new commission. They
are:
14 September - 02 October
Olly's Prison
Originally a screenplay, adapted for the theatre by Bond
From the 1990s
Set in a simple city apartment, a father’s attempts to speak
to his daughter fail to elicit a response, and eventually erupt in
a shocking and tragic climax of paternal fury.
Directed by Gareth Corke
19 September - 02 October
The Pope's Wedding
First produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 1965
A portrait of a frustrated, inarticulate, and finally murderous country
labourer, dramatising through tragic circumstance and the decline
of rural society in the face of post-war urban advances.
Directed by Conrad Blakemore
05 - 24 October
The Under Room
A play from the 2000s
A city suburb, 2077. In the cellar of a dull city dwelling Joan discovers
a stranger living on her property, citing marching soldiers in the
street as the reason for his presence. Demanding he provide an explanation,
the stranger’s story unfolds before Joan in a manner both tragic
and comic. The stranger's story changes her life forever.
Directed by Hamish Macdougall
10 - 23 October
The Fool
The first revivial since Peter Gill's original production at the Royal
Court Theatre in 1975.
Focusing on the life of the 19th century, peasant poet John Clare,
The Fool reinterprets Clare’s existence, making him advocate
in his poetry of the spirit of the rural rebellion against growing
industrial capitalism, the failure of this battle fuelling his eventual
descent into madness.
Directed by Andrea Ferran
26 October - 13 November
A new play, as yet untitled
Directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher
31 October -13
Red, Black and Ignorant
First produced in 1984
Depicting man and his decline into greed and despair, this is short
piece, chronicling scenes from the life of a charred, blackened monster
who was never born – his life destroyed before it was ever lived.
Exploring issues of corruption and violence, this is a complicated,
moral tale, Bond’s frightening vision leaving the audience “imagining
the unimaginable”, where cries for help go unheard and conflict
eventually brutalises everything.
Directed by Maja Milatovic-Ovadia
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