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Analysis of the first few scenes of one of the most controversial plays of the 1960s, which was Edward Bond's Saved.
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Brecht wrote: '... to think, or write or produce a play also means to transform society, to transform the state, to subject ideologies to close scrutiny.' Offer an analysis of the ideologies your work subjects to scrutiny by considering the value systems which that work critiques or with which it colludes. You may answer in both political and theatrical terms. Our group looked at representing the first few scenes of one of the most controversial plays of the 1960s, which was Edward Bond's Saved. We decided to focus on the themes rather than the individual scenes. As a starting point our group looked at Brecht's dialectics as a director, discovering the definition of 'dialectics' is "a way of finding out the truth by logical discussion". We progressed with this to try and find 'the truth' that was beneath the text in the section of the play we had been given to interpret dramatically....
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