The Notebooks Of Edward Bond: v. 2 (Diaries, Letters and Essays) by Bond Edward

Author:Bond, Edward [Bond, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Lear

O, not so loud! Where is the sanctuary?

My stomach’s shrivelled and the hair’s turned white.

[…]

Advice

1. The tyrant squeezes human blood from a stone.

2. Whoever hits a child slaps God in the face.

[…]

3 February 1971

In Act I Lear to plan a future with GDB. We’ll settle down and be at peace here, and I will learn how to live. ETC.

Lear says the cut’s gone!

GDB (or Cord) It wasn’t deep. There’s something wrong with his hands. He can’t hold a knife.

Lear It’s almost healed in a night.

[…]

4 February 1971

My daughters empty the prisons at night and feed the men to the dogs. Hup, Rover! Hup, boy! Tricks for human flesh. The foxes slink out. And night stands by the gate with my daughters’ keys in its hands. When old men become revolutionaries the world will be saved.

Possible new end.

Lear and Cordelia Cordelia goes

Brief exchange between Lear and Boy

Lear ‘my life is like a tree’.

Sounds off.

Boy runs back – dies

Lear calls Thomas! Susan!

They come on. Explain that the pigs went mad. Running wild Lear insists on talking about his plans.

Leave them. They will come back. Listen; I must talk to you.

Lear: Everything passes even the waste

The fools will be silent

We won’t chain ourselves to the dead

Or send our children to school in a grave yard

The torturing ministers and priests

Will lose their office

And we walk past each other in the streets without shuddering

[…]

Lear cut prison 4 episode – add to bodice: clock chimes rapidly.

Opening of Act III Lear sits rigidly, as though listening expectantly.

Repeats. She should have answered! Why hasn’t she? Why? Why?

4 February 1971

The crucified pig: a little CND play37

Amplified sound of pig screaming

The men who walked on the moon are

nameless

As the men who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki

They did what they were told

They would have done more

They offered to do anything

Pressing button. Which one is it?

O dear, I’m such a silly! (Gets finger stuck) As she talks (Yakety yak, Yahoo ho-ho-ho-boo-hoo, etc)

For CND play 19 February 1971

I did what I was told to do to others

who did to me what they were told to do

when I saw the blood running out of my arms

I cried

I lie in my grave while the bird sings

My tanks set fire to the corn

My bullets stripped the trees bare

I made where I was a grave

I walked and laughed in it

Once when it was quiet

I heard a bird singing

Building a nest

In the cardboard boxes we put the bodies in

My flares were brighter than stars at night

My guns louder than thunder

I ravaged more than the locusts

My bayonet was sharp

I kept it whetted in blood and the cries of pitiful men

I crippled to make men happy

The simpleton drools in the bath chair

I am the father of millions of orphans

I am dead

The birds sang as the blood

ran from my arms

I lie in my grave and it sings still

It has the sky and I have the earth

If I could rise now on wings and fly

I would sing

I would sing

I would sing

‘Pity poor man!

He is mad

He is lost.’

21 February 1971

We are gods

Only mortals

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