Saved (adaptation)

A baby is murdered by a gang of street punks in the park. The father, Fred, is arrested for stoning the baby to death. The mother, Pam, visits Fred in jail. This is a powerful short, adapted from a currently unauthorized interpretation of the play "Saved" by Edward Bond. In the original, Fred gets a second visitor, Len, but he is combined with Pam to serve this short. Adapted and directed by Den Serras. For promotional use only, do not redistribute.

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[MsJulie07]

it´s interesting to see this adaptation. Still, I would like to see the British version, does anyone know where I can find it?

By the way, which is the name of the song in the epilogue?

Thanks! :)

[dennitzio]

@MsJulie07 Haven't seen a filmed version of the original. The song is Hold On by Tom Waits from Mule Variations.

[edmund184]

@MsJulie07 I saw the play at the Hammersmith Apollo in London last year. I don't know what I feel about it. It is powerful but flawed. The characters are two dimensional, the language unmemorable. It seems sensational and Bond's point that the capitalist system created the violence seems reductive. He offers no solutions and I don't know of any real life situation where a baby was killed in London in this way.

[The1worlds1a1stage]

Saved is being performed in at the Lyric Hammersmith london- very good!

[conewells]

OK adaptation, but loses its impact without the ol' Cockney accent. (I'm being a snob, I know)

[twister5960]

Just read this play today, and thought I'd see what was here. Good stuff, so strange to hear it USA stylee. Loved it.

[twister5960]

Just read this play today, and thought I'd see what was here. Good stuff, so strange to hear it USA stylee.

[MrElectricCheese]

I performed a scene of this play. I would have loved to read the rest but couldn't as it was my lecturers book and I can't find any in the Library's in Glasgow Scotland.... it's a shame really.

[AMacoustra]

Great short. This has been adapted from Edward Bond's stage play 'Saved' (first performed in London in 1965). The setting for the short has been transferred to a U.S. penitentiary (the stage play is set in East London). The short is based on Scene 7 of Bond's play.

[oldsmelly911]

not the same without a london accent. good though non the less