'Plays Six includes some of the most acclaimed work of Edward Bond, one of Britain''s greatest living contemporary dramatists, who is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. The collection includes The War Plays and Choruses from After the Assassinations. In The War Plays (Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, Great Peace)- Bond particularises daunting themes and subjects, but examines them within the context of every day life. His platform is a trilogy of plays that deal with the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. The first, - a quick, telling chronicle of a life destroyed before it ever got lived - puts forth Bond''s notions of contemporary cultural corruption and conditioning. In play two the demoralised inheritors of a ravaged earth try to rationalise an existence predicated on death. The third play enlarges the issues by focussing on a post-apocalyptic Mother Courage ''for whom schizoid suffering becomes a survival technique''. (Time Out). In Choruses From After The Assassinations, Bond forecasts questions fifty years into the future, in an age of escalating militarism. ''Edward Bond is a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright'' (Independent)'