Edward Bond Quotes - Page 2

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

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

I'm interested in the real world.

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

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.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.