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Edward Bond
British playwright and director; b 18 July 1934; m 1971, Elisabeth Pable. Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1977-79. Hon. DLitt Yale, 1977. George Devine Award, 1968; John Whiting Award, 1968. Obie, 1976. City of Lyon Medal 2007.
Publications: Theatre Poems and Songs, 1978; Collected Poems 1978-1985, 1987; The Worlds with The Activist Papers, 1980; Notes on Post-Modernism, 1989; Notes on Imagination,1995; Selected Letters (5 Vols), 1994-1901; Selected Notebooks, (vol 1) 2000, (vol 2) 2001; The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State, 2000. Collected Plays (8 vols), 1977-2006
Plays: The Pope’s Wedding, 1962; Saved, 1965; Narrow Road to the Deep North, 1968; Early Morning, 1968; Passion, 1971; Black Mass, 1971; Lear, 1972; The Sea, 1973; Bingo, 1974; The Fool, 1976; A-A-America (Grandma Faust and The Swing), 1976; Stone, 1976; The Woman, 1978; Restoration, 1981; Summer: a play for Europe, and Fables (short stories) 1982; Derek, 1983; Human Cannon, 1984; The War Plays (part 1, Red Black and Ignorant; part 2, The tin Can People; part 3, Great Peace), 1985; Jackets, 1989; In the Company of Men, 1990; September, 1990; Olly’s Prison, 1993; Tuesday, 1993; Coffee: a Tragedy, 1995; At the Inland Sea: a play for young people, 1996; Eleven Vests, 1997; The Crime of the Twenty-first Century, 1998; The Children: a play for two adults and sixteen children, 2000; Chair, 2000; Have I None, 2000; Existence, 2002; The Balancing Act, 2003; The Short Electra, 2004; The Under Room. 2005; My Day: a Song Cycle for young people, 2005; Manchester Impromptu, 2006; Born, 2006; People, 2007.
Opera libretti: We Come to the River (music by Hans Werner Henze), 1976; The English Cat (music by Hans Werner Henze),
Ballet libretto: Orpheus, 1982.
Translations: Chekhov, The Three Sisters, 1967; Wedekind, Spring Awakening, 1974; Wedekind, Lulu - A Monster Tragedy (with Elisabeth Bond-Pable), 1992.
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