Bond Plays: 7

Synopsis

The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights.

THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed.

A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble.

A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence.

OLLY'S PRISON: an ordinary city flat.

Evening.

A man tries to talk to his daughter.

She will not answer.

Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years.

COFFEE: A young man alone in a room.

A stranger enters.

Together they journey into a dark forest...When the men return to the daylight world, they are involved in a trivial incident.

It is hardly more than a gesture - yet it is something that once happened and in its triviality captures the history of our century and confronts us with the deepest questions about ourselves.

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