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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.

Edward Bond

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. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.

Edward Bond

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

Edward Bond

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

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

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

Edward Bond

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

Edward Bond

Edward Bond

Edward Bond

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Born: July 18, 1934

Died: March 3, 2024 (aged 89)

Bio: Edward Bond was an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He was the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved, the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theater censorship in the UK.

Known for:

Saved (1965)
The Sea (1973)
Restoration (1981)
The War Plays (1985)

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