Top 40 Quotes by Edward Bond

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

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

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.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

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

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

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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

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