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The one overall structure in my plays is language
Edward Bond
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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I'm interested in the real world.
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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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
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
Edward Bond
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
Edward Bond
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
Edward Bond
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
Edward Bond
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.
Edward Bond
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
Edward Bond
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
Edward Bond
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
Edward Bond
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
Edward Bond
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
Edward Bond
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.
Edward Bond
