"Saved" - Edward Bond
"Saved" - Edward Bond Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal…
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"Saved" - Edward Bond
Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. The play was first staged privately in November 1965 at the Royal Court Theatre before members of the English Stage Society in a time when plays were still censored. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates.
In a letter to the Observer, Sir Laurence Olivier wrote: 'Saved is not a play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it.' Saved has had a marked influence on a whole new generation writing in the 1990s.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest With its scenes of violence, including the stoning of a baby, Saved became a notorious play and a cause c l bre.