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At The Inland Sea
"A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event...the severity and seriousness of his message is delivered with extraordinary directness" (Carole Woddis, Times Educational Supplement)
On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confronts him with an impossible dilemma. It's a life or death situation. Can he use his imagination to stop the most horrific events from taking place?
This play was toured to British schools during 1995 by Big Brum, the Birmingham theatre company. Notes and commentary on the production have been written by Tony Coult.
Edward Bond "is one of the two or three major playwrights - and arguably the only one - to emerge since the fifties" (Observer)
On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confronts him with an impossible dilemma. It's a life or death situation. Can he use his imagination to stop the most horrific events from taking place?
This play was toured to British schools during 1995 by Big Brum, the Birmingham theatre company. Notes and commentary on the production have been written by Tony Coult.
Edward Bond "is one of the two or three major playwrights - and arguably the only one - to emerge since the fifties" (Observer)
96 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 1997
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October 30, 2016
(3.5/5)
May 18, 2011
3,5
It is a very good play and some scenes were killed me, yes. But it is also a "younger people" play and it didn't cover any new ground for me, which was its intention. A lot of the questions it asks (some of which I didn't notice, but the notes are really, really worth reading, they give some great insights) I have already asked myself (what kind of responsibility do we have - should we have for the past, what would have happened to us, had we lived in those days, etc.). Had this not been the case, it surely would have been an eye-opener in some way.
It is a very good play and some scenes were killed me, yes. But it is also a "younger people" play and it didn't cover any new ground for me, which was its intention. A lot of the questions it asks (some of which I didn't notice, but the notes are really, really worth reading, they give some great insights) I have already asked myself (what kind of responsibility do we have - should we have for the past, what would have happened to us, had we lived in those days, etc.). Had this not been the case, it surely would have been an eye-opener in some way.
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