Plays 8

*Edward Bond Plays:8*brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays *Saved*, *Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning.* The volume comprises five new plays and two prose essays:

**Two Cups**: introductory essay

**Born**: the third play in the *Colline Tetralogy*(the first two of which appear in *Edward Bond Plays:7*); premiering at the Avignon Festival in July 2006. **People**: the fourth play in the *Colline Tetralogy* **Chair**: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. **Existence**: first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. The Under Room: first staged by Big Brum in October 2005; 'an intricate puzzle that is compelling in both its intellectual and emotional intensity'5 stars (*Guardian*) **Freedom and Drama**: an extended disquisition on the relationship of drama to the self and society in which Bond argues that drama alone can create human meaning.