Have I None Edward Bond Futuristic Disaster Southwark Theatre Programme

CHAU1503  A rare eight page 2002 from the Southwark Playhouse in London of Have I None by Edward Bond in mint condition.

Frenzied mass consumerism has been replaced by standard-issue houses, furniture and food. The old cities lie in ruins and the people have been resettled. Sara (Naomi Frederick) is unhappily married to Jams (Aidan Kelly), who works for the security services, but when a man (Timothy O'Hara) turns up at their door claiming to be her brother and holding a banned photograph of them as children, Sara's memory stirs.

It's a short, sharp shocker of a play, shot through with a dark, frenzied comedy, and director Sean Holmes turns it like a knife in a wound. Sadly, Bond the director well and truly scuppers Bond the playwright in the second and much longer play, The Under Room. Here, we find an illegal immigrant (Felix Scott) in a cellar, having broken into Joan's (Tanya Moodie) home to escape the soldiers outside. Will she turn him in or help him escape? It is a play of slowly dawning consciousness, but the ponderous production, which weighs almost every word and action with the same significance, sinks the drama and often leaves the actors exposed. Nobody is saved.