"Cyprus Avenue" is a Dead-End Street by Jan Simpson

Edward Bond's drama Saved shocked London audiences in 1965 with its depiction of a group of disaffected young people stoning a baby to death. That harrowing scene set the bar for generations of British playwrights determined to show that they too were mad as hell at the world" and daring enough to say so. Thus, we've had racism, rape and torture in Sarah Kane's Blasted, maiming and matricide in Martin …

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