Edward Bond Quotes
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I think there is no world without theatre.
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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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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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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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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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…
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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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…
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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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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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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…
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I'm interested in the real world.
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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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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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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…
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