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 destroyed.
Edward Bond
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Edward Bond
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Edward Bond
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
Edward Bond
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
Edward Bond
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Edward Bond
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Edward Bond
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
Edward Bond
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Edward Bond
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
Edward Bond
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
Edward Bond
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
Edward Bond
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
Edward Bond
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