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
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
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
I think there is no world without theatre.
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
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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.