Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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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.
- Edward Bond Quote

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 Quote

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
- Edward Bond Quote

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.
- Edward Bond Quote

I think there is no world without theatre.
- Edward Bond Quote

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.
- Edward Bond Quote

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
- Edward Bond Quote

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
- Edward Bond Quote

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
- Edward Bond Quote

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
- Edward Bond Quote

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.
- Edward Bond Quote

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
- Edward Bond Quote

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Edward Bond Quote

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
- Edward Bond Quote

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Edward Bond Quote

The one overall structure in my plays is language.
- Edward Bond Quote

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
- Edward Bond Quote

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
- Edward Bond Quote

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
- Edward Bond Quote

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
- Edward Bond Quote

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
- Edward Bond Quote

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
- Edward Bond Quote