Olly's Prison - Paperback

by Edward Bond (Author)

This volume includes the TV version and the stage adaptation

"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. The play moves through the prison of the mind, to that of the outside world in a search that leads to a tragedy.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)

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An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. And slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years. Many of the scenes are set in prison, but the greater prison lies outside. A vivid and powerful morality play for our time. Olly's Prison was televised by the BBC in spring 1993. This volume includes the TV version and the stage adaptation.