Edward Bond

Edward Bond (born July 18 1934) is a English playwright, theatre director, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. His highly controversial work has met with extremes of reaction, from vilification to claims that he is the world's greatest living dramatist.

Publications

Since the early 1970s, Bond has been conspicuous as the first dramatist since George Bernard Shaw to produce long, serious prose prefaces to his plays.

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These contain the author's meditations on capitalism, violence, technology, post-modernism and imagination. Seven volumes of his Collected Plays, including the prefaces, are available from the UK publisher Methuen.

Related Topics:
Capitalism - Violence - Technology - Post-modernism - Methuen

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In 1999 he published The Hidden Plot, a collection of writings on theatre and the meaning of drama. He has published two volumes from his notebooks and four volumes of letters. His Collected Poems was published in 1987.

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