Chair Plays

'I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' <br/><i>The Chair Plays</i> are three one-act plays that Edward Bond has combined into one continuous drama on the state of society towards the end of the present century.<br/>Faced with ecological disaster and economic chaos governments have become authoritarian and repressive. Domestic family life struggles to survive in a world of fleeing refugees mass suicides ruined and deserted suburbs and soldiers patrolling the streets. Authority decrees even the exact placing of furniture in rooms. There is a knock at the door - but it is not the secret police. It is something even more disturbing. In this broken world sheer human goodness and vision asserts itself in stubborn and radiant ways. <br/>A master dramatist creates a range of extraordinary characters vivid situations and radical theatrical devices to stage the central problem of modern life.