Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama.
Read more about Edward Bond: Early Life, Mid-1960s To Mid-1970s: First Plays and Association With The Royal Court, From The 1970s To The Mid-1980s: Broaden Scope of Practice and Political Experiments, Controversial Directing Attempts and Quarrels With The Institutions, The Turning Point of The 1980s, Recent Years, Publications, Contribution To The Cinema, List of Works
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