Early Morning
Disraeli and Prince Albert are planning a revolution. Queen Victoria is seducing Florence Nightingale. The heir to the throne is a Siamese Win. Edward Bond 's notorious play, adapted for radio by the author, rises again, its voltage undiminished. As described by John Russell Taylor , Early
Morning depicts "a world of arbitrary, institutionalised cruelty, where cannibalism, metaphorical and later literal, is the order of the day, and ... people 'don't just hate their own life - they hate life itself. It's a matter of conscience, like duty in the blood.'"
This was the last play to be banned by the Lord Chamberlain before the abolition of his office in 1968. Director David Benedictus