What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. - Edward Bond
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
- Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. - Edward Bond
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice - Edward Bond
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. - Edward Bond
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. - Edward Bond
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. - Edward Bond
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond. - Edward Bond
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 - Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent… - Edward Bond
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent…
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