Lyric Hammersmith, LondonBecause we see it so rarely, we forget that Edward Bond's Saved is a play rather than a cause celebre. And watching Sean Holmes's powerful production, the first major revival in a quarter of a century, I was struck by the way violence threads its way through every scene. But, in the wise words of a former critic, this is "violence as a social deformity crying for correction" rather than the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53PM on October 13, 2011