The Pope's wedding
By: Edward Bond
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: Bond's real first play, 'The Pope's Wedding', was staged as a Sunday night 'performance without décor' at the Royal Court Theatre in 1962. This is a falsely naturalistic drama (the title refers to 'an impossible ceremony') set in contemporary Essex which shows, through a set of tragic circumstances, the death of rural society brought about by modern post-war urban living standards.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1977.