Synopsis
Restoration
$15.99 Published by Methuen
Large Mixed Cast
Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege
Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime
He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes
CAST-SIZE: M8,F5
REVIEWS
"Edward Bond's Restoration towers like a colossus ... its stylistic wit, moral complexity and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with classic drama" ~ Michael Billington, Guardian
"Bond's great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself" ~ Robert Cushman, Observer