Edward Bond
Edward Bond
Edward Bondis an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved, the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 July 1934
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.