What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. – 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
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. – Edward Bond
Humanity’s become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. – Edward Bond
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
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. – 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
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
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 ends. It’s called competition. And competition is antagonism. – 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
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
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. – Edward Bond
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. – Edward Bond
