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. ”

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. ”

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. ”

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

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ”

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

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. ”

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

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. ”

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