79 Quotes by Edward Bond

I’m interested in the real world.

If you can’t face Hiroshima in the theatre, you’ll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

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.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic – Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

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.