English - Playwright | July 18, 1934 -
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
Edward Bond
ChangeGoodWorld
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.
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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
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Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
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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.
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I'm interested in the real world.
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
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