The Worlds: With The Activists Papers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the fractured urban landscape of late twentieth-century Britain, Edward Bond's The Worlds confronts the reader with a raw and unflinching collision between capitalism, terrorism, and the moral disintegration of modern society — a drama in which a wealthy industrialist's kidnapping by radical activists tears open the fault lines of class, power, and human identity. The play presents two irreconcilable worlds: that of the comfortable and complicit, and that of the desperate and dispossessed, forcing its characters — and its audience — into an act of moral reckoning that offers no easy absolution. Accompanied by The Activists Papers, a collection of Bond's own theoretical and political writings, this volume illuminates the ideological architecture underpinning his dramatic vision. Bond argues with characteristic ferocity that theatre must serve as an instrument of social and political transformation, not mere entertainment, and his prose writings here detail the philosophical convictions that animate his stagecraft. One of the most intellectually formidable British playwrights of the post-war era, Bond writes with a spare, confrontational intensity that has drawn comparisons to Brecht, yet remains entirely his own — leaving one to wonder whether the two worlds he chronicles can ever truly be reconciled, or whether the chasm between them is the very condition of our age.
Author: Edward Bond
Format: Hardback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the fractured urban landscape of late twentieth-century Britain, Edward Bond's The Worlds confronts the reader with a raw and unflinching collision between capitalism, terrorism, and the moral disintegration of modern society — a drama in which a wealthy industrialist's kidnapping by radical activists tears open the fault lines of class, power, and human identity. The play presents two irreconcilable worlds: that of the comfortable and complicit, and that of the desperate and dispossessed, forcing its characters — and its audience — into an act of moral reckoning that offers no easy absolution. Accompanied by The Activists Papers, a collection of Bond's own theoretical and political writings, this volume illuminates the ideological architecture underpinning his dramatic vision. Bond argues with characteristic ferocity that theatre must serve as an instrument of social and political transformation, not mere entertainment, and his prose writings here detail the philosophical convictions that animate his stagecraft. One of the most intellectually formidable British playwrights of the post-war era, Bond writes with a spare, confrontational intensity that has drawn comparisons to Brecht, yet remains entirely his own — leaving one to wonder whether the two worlds he chronicles can ever truly be reconciled, or whether the chasm between them is the very condition of our age.