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  • 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

    Drama  
  • It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

  • First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

    Edward Bond (2013). “Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men”, p.32, A&C Black
  • Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

  • 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.

  • Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

    Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black
  • You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

    "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
  • 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.

    Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black
  • Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

    Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
  • Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

  • Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

  • Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

  • The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

  • The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

    Greek  
  • Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

    Drama   Greek   Done  
  • In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

  • It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

  • I'm interested in the real world.

  • It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

    "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
  • The one overall structure in my plays is language

    Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
  • 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.

  • I'm not interested in an imaginary world

  • Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

    Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.5, A&C Black
  • The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

  • In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  • As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

    Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.10, A&C Black
  • Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

    "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
  • 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.

  • Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

    Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.12, A&C Black
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