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Edward Bond [1934-0] English

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Playwright

Edward Bond is 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.

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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.		101
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.		102
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.		103
I think there is no world without theatre.		104
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.	History	105
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.		106
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.		107
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.	Society	108
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.		109
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.		110
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.		111
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.		112
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.		113
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.		114
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.		115
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.		116
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.		117
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.		118
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I'm interested in the real world.		122
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.		123
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.		124
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.		125
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.		126
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.		201
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.		202
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.		203
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.		204
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.		205
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.		206
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.		207
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.		208
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.		209
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.		210
The one overall structure in my plays is language.		211
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.		212
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.		213
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.		214

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