Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

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• Edward Bond:

  At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

• Edward Bond:

  Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

• Edward Bond:

  But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

• Edward Bond:

  Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it w

• Edward Bond:

  First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the th

• Edward Bond:

  Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

• Edward Bond:

  I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be

• Edward Bond:

  I think there is no world without theatre.

• Edward Bond:

  I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making t

• Edward Bond:

  I'm interested in the real world.