Narrow Road to the Deep North

Narrow Road to the Deep North
Written byEdward Bond
Date premiered24 June 1968
Place premieredBelgrade Theatre, Coventry
Original languageEnglish
SettingJapan about the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries

Narrow Road to the Deep North is a 1968 satirical play on the British Empire by the English playwright Edward Bond.

It is a political parable set in Japan in the Edo period. It deals with the poet Basho and the changing political landscape over about 35 years.

The play won Bond the John Whiting Award for 1968.

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