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• As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

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  Lasts, Hours, Stage

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.10, A&C Black

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• It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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  Ignorant, Seems

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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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  Animal, People, Theatre

  Edward Bond (2013). “Bond Plays: 5: The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men”, p.32, A&C Black

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• We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

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  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, People, Scar

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• I'm interested in the real world.

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  Real, World, Real World

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

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  Theatre, Doe, Literature

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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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  Drama, Theatre, Literature

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• The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

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  Stage, Plausible

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• Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

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  Animal, Literature, Conscious

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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  Answers

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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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  Views, Play, Insulting

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• Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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  Play, Literature, Violence

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• Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

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  Years, Play, Literature

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• The one overall structure in my plays is language

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  Play, Literature, Language

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

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  Greek, Theatre

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

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  Writing, Play, Down And

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

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

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  Punishment, Literature, Empires

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• You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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  Language

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

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