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For example, Maddy Costa provides a quote from Irving Wardle of the Times’ who said of the characters in the play – “these people spoke like urban cavemen.

Freud considers “The irresistibility of perverted impulses” (9) under which we may categorize the child murder depicted in Saved. In Maddy Costa’s article about Saved in the Guardian, she gives her interpretation of the play and includes a quote from the playwright. Darlington found the whole episode so “beneath art” that he just could not be bothered to play along with it. Everyone tends to define Bond's play by its notorious central scene in which Pam dumps her pram in the park only for a gang of youths to attack and stone the abandoned baby.Maddy Costa’s article, howev The baby’s pram was of fifties/sixties design, which certainly provided a sense of reassurance that we were watching a piece of history, a ‘period piece’ – an important contribution to a British canon of political plays that we can set in a very specific socio-cultural era. Subconscious is a key word in that quote and Sanderson explains of the bystander effect – “many of the processes that drive inaction occur not through a careful deliberative process, but at an automatic level in the brain” (9).

Len is the good guy with a value system that appears Christian but is, in fact, just humanistic and empathic. Harry tells Len that Len's problem is that he didn't get to fight in World War II : "Yer never got yer man", i. Taylor goes on to conclude that the assault is arbitrary and unmotivated, but he sees this as a fault whereas Bond would consider it part of the nature of violence. One does not expect a jilted lover to remain in the same household with both his ex-lover and her new boyfriend. We also witness individuals who are incapable or uncomprehending of their responsibilities even in the aftermath of atrocious, violent deeds.

The London scene is also one of unrelenting cultural poverty where only the blandness of scheduled television or tabloid magazines feed the characters’ need for entertainment and escapism. This is a true example of turning the other cheek since Len believes fate, maybe even God, will deal with Fred, however, it certainly will not be Len. In February 1969, after the abolition of censorship in the 1968 Theatres Act, Saved was given its first full public run at the Royal Court Theatre in London. I recognise the socio-cultural importance of the play in 1965, and was profoundly disturbed by the tenor of exchange and the brutality of child-murder in Sean Holmes’ production; however what struck me was that its success relies on the audience’s willingness to read the depiction of this dysfunctional family as metonymnic. The most notorious play of the 1960s to depict violence is Bond’s Saved with its baby-stoning scene.

Neither Fred nor the audience can really understand why Len should be friends with the man who has stolen his lover from him. Bond says that Len does not turn the other cheek but instead stares into a dark abyss of hopelessness without flinching. The complexity of Len’s response to the attack helps shift one’s focus to the prospects of the next generation. Using this structure Bond shows how varying degrees of cruelty, both indirect and direct, lead up to its death. He aids people who have abused and hurt him and therefore lives a life true to bible teachings even though he professes no faith.Whilst the audience are presented with a range of male characters the female characters share key characteristics – they are intolerant, resentful and suspicious and they express this through interminable soprano tirades. Pam’s negative attitude to motherhood is that of a burdened, single woman who is “stuck with a kid” (39).

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