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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
Edward Bond
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
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London
England
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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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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
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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 destroyed
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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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The one overall structure in my plays is language
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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.
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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