Edward Bond & the celebrity of exile

Saunders, G. (2004) Edward Bond & the celebrity of exile. Theatre Research International, 29 (3). pp. 256-266. ISSN 1474-0672 doi: 10.1017/S0307883304000665

Abstract/Summary

A shibboleth has grown up around the work of Edward Bond. The tag ‘controversial dramatist’ has continued to dog both the man and his work. This article will hope to explore some of the contradictory, and sometimes frustrating manifestations that such ‘celebrity’ has produced. Since the reception of The War Plays [1985] by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the National Theatre Bond has largely withdrawn his work from mainstream British theatre. Since the late 1990s he has looked to a new home – La Colline Theatre – in France, to premiere new work and run retrospective seasons of older plays. Here, Bond's celebrity is of a different kind, and has allowed him to enhance and develop his work as a playwright, director and writer about theatre. While this article draws on secondary sources it also uses material based on personal correspondence with Edward Bond.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/31332
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S0307883304000665
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Film, Theatre & Television
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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