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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
Edward Bond
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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
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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.
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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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Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
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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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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
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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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