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
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.