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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks  (Edward Bond Quotes) The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies  (Edward Bond Quotes) Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur  (Edward Bond Quotes) In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice  (Edward Bond Quotes) Humanity’s become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair  (Edward Bond Quotes) You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama  (Edward Bond Quotes) But we are not in the world to be good but to change it  (Edward Bond Quotes) What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being  (Edward Bond Quotes) Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism  (Edward Bond Quotes) The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment  (Edward Bond Quotes) It’s politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from idea  (Edward Bond Quotes) It’s insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinio  (Edward Bond Quotes) 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 Quotes) Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done  (Edward Bond Quotes) We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history  (Edward Bond Quotes) I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future  (Edward Bond Quotes) It’s insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.  (Edward Bond Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.  (Edward Bond Quotes) 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 Quotes) Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it  (Edward Bond Quotes) The one overall structure in my plays is language  (Edward Bond Quotes) I’m interested in the real world  (Edward Bond Quotes) I’m not interested in an imaginary world  (Edward Bond Quotes) If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond  (Edward Bond Quotes) It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves  (Edward Bond Quotes) It’s wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play  (Edward Bond Quotes) I think there is no world without theatre  (Edward Bond Quotes) Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human  (Edward Bond Quotes)
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