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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."

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

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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