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Edward Bond
Birthday: July 18, 1934
Category: English Playwright
Type: Playwright
National: English
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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within...
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I...
At the turn of the century theatre does not have...
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur....
But we are not in the world to be good...
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of...
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then...
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product,...
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the...
I think there is no world without theatre....
I write plays not to make money, but to stop...
I'm interested in the real world....
I'm not interested in an imaginary world....
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they...
In the end I think theatre has only one subject:...
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then...
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of...
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of...
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing...
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write...
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand...
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it...
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just...
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all....
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the...
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies....
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and...
The one overall structure in my plays is language....
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks....
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage....
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not...
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as...
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people...
We may seem competent, but by the end of next...
What I try to do in a play is put...
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was...
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will...
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies...
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama....
You have to learn the language of Hamlet....


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