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.

I'm interested in the real world.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.