Bond Plays: 5

One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.The Bundle - 'A complex and marvellously written play' (The Times); Jackets - 'An astonishingly powerful piece of political, polemic poetry' (Guardian); Human Cannon charts the struggle against Fascism in Spain through the stories of the village community of Estarobon; In the Company of Men, a vivid and coruscating attack on the values encapsulated by boardroom power games, was described by the RSC as 'a vast meditation on the twenty-first century.'Edward Bond 'is one of the two or three major playwrights - and arguably the only one - to emerge since the fifties' (Observer)