Quotes by Edward Bond

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.

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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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Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn’t the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

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

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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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

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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.

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

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

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Quotes by Edward Bond

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.

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

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn’t the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

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

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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

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

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

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