Saved
Saved,a play by E. Bond , which caused much controversy when it was first seen (members only) at the Royal Court in 1965 , having been refused a licence for public performance. In short, minimalist-realist scenes, with dialogue of stark and stylized crudity, Bond evokes a bleak south London landscape of domestic and street violence and the somewhat caricatured impoverished pastimes of the working class—fishing, football pools, TV, pop music. In the central episode Pam's baby, which has been neglected by her and which cries loudly through much of the preceding action, is tormented and stoned to death in its pram by a gang of youths and its putative father, Fred. The subsequent lack of response to the child's death adds to the sense of dramatic shock.
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