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
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
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.
I'm interested in the real world.
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.
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
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.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.