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
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.
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.
I'm interested in the real world.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.