"The authorities were right
to abolish the past. We got rid of it. Videos, tapes, records,
clothing - parties, dot-com-dot, drugs. People were ailing
with it. Suffering will end. There is still an occasional
lunatic. Old women with images in their heads. Wandering
children. I am not immune to it, I sometimes feel like a
footprint on the ground on which no man has ever walked.
But still less and less frequently. Suffering is passing."
(from Have I None 2000)
Memories… Strictly forbidden
What do we expect from the future? And what can the future
expect from us, from our children?
These are the questions which Edward Bond (1934) is asking
with his powerful and multi-layered futurist fairy-tale. In
the near future, the year 2077, in Western Europe, a new order
is in power. Total control strictly forbids people the right
to memories, while anarchy rules the streets. In an attempt
to save mankind in a world which has managed to destroy the
essence of human existence for the sake of order, only sacrifice
represents a warning cry against all that is inhumane.
Edward Bond has inspired a whole generation of British playwrights,
after the publishing of a brilliant and controversial play "Saved" in
1965, in which he openly demonstrated on stage the naked brutality
of society. By celebrating the power of an individual, the
real potential in man, his plays breathe with understanding
and praise of man's ongoing struggle, in spite of being a warning
and critique of the society.
The THEATRON production group was founded in 2001, with headquarters
in Lund and Malmö, southern Sweden. Their principles are to entertain,
disturb and measure the things around us.
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