Facts about Edward Bond 
Summary
Edward Bond (born in Holloway, London, UK) is a famous Playwright from England, he is still alive and was born July 18, 1934.
Biography
Edward Bond is a British playwright, director and writer.
Bond grew up in a simple working-class family in north London. During World War II he experienced as a child, the bombing of London, which made a deep impression on him and came to lay a foundation for his future activities as a playwright and theater. His many works are often created controversy and outrage in Britain with his often provocative and violent political social-critical content in an imitation of the past and contemporary so-called angry young men in British theater. He has over the years also come into conflict with the leading UK institutional theater world, he is often perceived as unwilling to provide decent artistic working or take on the social-critical renewal he sought, which has led him to publish his work as a theater theorist.
He has also written poetry often incorporates a responsive poetic tone in many of his theater work, and he counted to today's most prominent and international playwrights. The breakthrough came with the play Saved / Saved (1964) for struggling young people without hope for the future of society's social base. It was like many of his early plays premiered at the progressive Royal Court Theatre in London. After the fracas and the controversies he has since the mid-1980s, in principle banned the professional British theaters to introduce his later plays, which instead had their premieres abroad or at university theaters and the like. He has also worked as a director and has written a part for film, opera and ballet. Most of his works are published in book form in English. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Edward.
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Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bond
Famous quotes by Edward Bond (34)
"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it"
"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama"
"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society"
"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama"
"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs"
"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage"
"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all"
"I'm interested in the real world"
"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"
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion"
"It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves"
"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"
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done"
"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"
"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised"
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment"
"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it"
"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"
"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur"
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive"
"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies"
"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"
"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play"
"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks"
"The one overall structure in my plays is language"
"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas"
"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice"
"I'm not interested in an imaginary world"
"I think there is no world without theatre"
"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people"
"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism"
"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond"
"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair"
"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"
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