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
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
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 I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
The one overall structure in my plays is language
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed