English - Playwright | July 18, 1934 -
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Edward Bond
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
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I think there is no world without theatre.
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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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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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.
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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
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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.
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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