This small set captures a particularly volatile moment in British theatre during the 1960s and early 70s, when the stage shifted away from polite drawing-room drama toward something sharper, stranger, and openly political.

Edward Bond’s Saved became notorious for its brutal depiction of working-class violence, forcing the British censorship system to confront the limits of what could be shown on stage. Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War dismantles patriotic mythology through songs, satire, and documentary fragments, turning the First World War into a savage theatrical cabaret. Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, meanwhile, brings anarchic farce to the collapsing moral order of postwar Britain.

Taken together, the three plays map the moment when British theatre stopped behaving itself.

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