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
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
The one overall structure in my plays is language
I'm not interested in an imaginary world
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.