Edward Bond quotes

I think there is no world without theatre. (Edward Bond)
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. View quote
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. View quote
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice. View quote
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. View quote
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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond. View quote
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. View quote
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. View quote
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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. (Edward Bond)
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. View quote
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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. View quote
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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. View quote
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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. View quote
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When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. View quote
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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. View quote
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. View quote
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. View quote
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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. View quote
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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. (Edward Bond)
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. View quote
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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