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.
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.
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
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
The one overall structure in my plays is language
I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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
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.