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Private Peaceful : A Play For A Small Ensemble
Michael Morpurgo
Great Peace
by Edward Bond
Synopsis
"In the third play of this trilogy," the Guardian critic writes, "order has been restored, the military is in charge, and an officer issues the Herod-like command that every squad kills a child to save vital resources."
A soldier agonizes over the command, but then finally smothers his mother's baby and then the mother herself.
Bond, a critic suggests, is offering a revolutionary idea,that those who dropped the bomb did not envisage the consequences, but the survivors who know them may perhaps forge a better world.
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Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Great Peace is a play written by Edward Bond and published by Samuel French .
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