experience. Is it Edward Bond’s fault or Eda Holmes’s? I don’t know." The Guardian's Michael Billington lauded the acting in Kent's production as acting "of the highest order" and wrote that "Bond achieves moments of limpid poetry as when the local wise fool announces 'in the end life laughs at death'. But [...] I'm not sure the story is strong enough to bear the cosmic weight imposed on it." Time Out's Kris Vera said that the thread on Hatch's fear of alien invasion "has an unfortunate resonance amid an increasingly ridiculous political season" but "sits uncomfortably alongside" other parts of the play. Bibliography Edward Bond: Bond Plays: 2, Methuen, 1978. References External links 1973 plays Fiction set in 1907 Plays by Edward Bond