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

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

- Edward Bond

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

- Edward Bond

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

- Edward Bond

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

- Edward Bond

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

- Edward Bond

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

- Edward Bond

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

- Edward Bond

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

- Edward Bond

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

I'm interested in the real world.

- Edward Bond

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

- Edward Bond

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

- Edward Bond

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

- Edward Bond

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

- Edward Bond

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

- Edward Bond

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

- Edward Bond

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

- Edward Bond

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

- Edward Bond

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

- Edward Bond