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

— Edward Bond

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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. ↗

— Edward Bond

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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. ↗

— Edward Bond

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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

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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice. ↗

— Edward Bond

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

— Edward Bond

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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#social-anxiety #solitude #beauty

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ↗

— Edward Bond

#shakespeare #us

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

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

The one overall structure in my plays is language. ↗

— Edward Bond

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