Holmes, Sean

In November 2011 there was a critically acclaimed revival of Saved directed by Sean Holmes at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. This production was the prelude to a further short season of later plays at the Lyric, namely Have I None, The Under Room and Chair in April and May 2012. Also throughout 2012 there was an ongoing Bond 50 season of events including the performance and rehearsed readings of some of his plays written for Big Brum. There was also a major two-day conference and festival at Warwick University in November 2012 organised hy Professor Tony Howard and Chris Cooper. 

In Saved (1965), revived with such energy and vision by Sean Holmes and with Bond s active engagement in the critically acclaimed 2011 Lyric Theatre production, we have one of the most iconic and defining British plays of the post-war period. The circumstances surrounding the play s first production have been well documented by previous writers and scholars (notably Browne, 1975, and Hay and Roberts, 1980). My intention is not therefore to re-enter that critical area in a narrowly socio-historical sense. As Lacey succinctly observes ... 

Staging Saved Interview with Sean Holmes... 

Sean Holmes (SH) Well, I think it was, if I m honest, it was the play I most wanted to direct of any other plays. This was partly of course that it was a play that you hadn t been able to direct for a long period in England. 

I am also extremely grateful to Sean Holmes (Artistic Director, The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Chris Cooper (Artistic Director, Big Brum Theatre in Education company) for their very generous giving of time and support to this project. 

Holmes JL, Davis E, Collyer SD, Higson SPJ (2011) A new applieation of seanning electroehcanieal microscopy for the label-lree intrurogatitui of antibody-antigen interactions. Anal Chim Acta 689 (2) 206-211. doi 10.1016/j.aca.2011.01.033... 

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