 Director Mark Vinson |
Restoration3rd - 6th March 2004 at
The Charles Cryer Studio Theatre Originally staged in London in 1981 'Restoration' is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes.
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"Edward Bond's Restoration towers like a colossus...its stylistic wit, moral complexity and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with classic drama" - Michael Billington, Guardian
"Bond's great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself" Robert Cushman, Observer Born in Holloway, London in 1934, Edward Bond is often called the Marxist dramatist. He uses both realism and epic theatre to express his rather grim vision of society and human nature. |
