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Saved; The Phoenix of Madrid; Iphigenia " review by Susannah Clapp

Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal BathPeople go to Saved thinking they know what they will see. They've been told often enough. A baby is stoned to death in a park by a group of youths; a middle-aged woman has her stocking provocatively darned (she's inside it: 'You watch where yer pokin') by her daughter's young admirer. These are the scenes that caused Edward Bond's play to be banned by the Lord Chamberlain …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on October 14, 2011

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