Selections from the Notebooks Of Edward Bond Volume One 1959-1980

In this first volume of notebooks, Bond explores the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer.

Edward Bond was born and educated in London. His plays include The Pope's Wedding (Royal Court Theatre, 1962), Saved (Royal Court, 1965), Early Morning (Royal Court, 1968), Lear (Royal Court, 1971), The Sea (Royal Court, 1973), The Fool (Royal Court, 1975), The Woman (National Theatre, 1978), Restoration (Royal Court, 1981), Summer (National Theatre, 1982), The War Plays (RSC at the Barbican Pit, 1985), In the Company of Men (Paris, 1992; RSC at the Barbican Pit, 1996), At the Inland Sea (toured by Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, 1995), Coffee (Rational Theatre Company, Cardiff and London, 1996; Paris, 2000), Eleven Vests (toured by Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, 1997), The Crime of the Twenty-first Century (published, 1998 and produced in Paris, 2000) and The Children (Classworks, Cambridge, 2000); also Olly's Prison (BBC2 Television, 1993), Tuesday (BBC Schools TV, 1993) and Chair (BBC Radio 4, 2000). His Theatre Poems and Songs were published in 1978 and Poems 1978-1985 in 1987 Dr Ian Stuart, currently teaches in the School of Theatre, University of Southern California