Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Ro...
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Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
“At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.”
“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”
“The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.”
“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”
“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
“Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.”
Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”
Source: Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men
“It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves”
“It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion”
“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human”
Source: Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations
“The one overall structure in my plays is language”
Source: Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations
“If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.”
“The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.”
“We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.”
Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion
“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”