Edward Bond | |
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 Bond in 2001 | |
| Born | Thomas Edward Bond 18 July 1934 Holloway, London, England |
| Died | 3 March 2024 (aged 89) London, England |
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| Language | English |
| Period | 1958–2016 |
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| Spouse |
Elisabeth Pablé
(m. 1971; died 2017) |
Thomas Edward Bond (18 July 1934 – 3 March 2024) was an English playwright, theatre director, poet, dramatic theorist and screenwriter. He was the author of some 50 plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. His other well-received works include Narrow Road to the Deep North (1968), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), and the War trilogy (1985). Bond was broadly considered among the major living dramatists[1][2] 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.
- ^ Mccarrick, Jaki (20 January 2017). "Ideas of war, riot and murder – Theatre". TLS. Retrieved 28 June 2020. "Regularly hailed as Britain’s greatest living playwright, [...]"
- ^ Quirke, Kieron (17 November 2002). "Fringe theatre roundup". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 March 2021. "The French think Bond is among the greatest British playwrights and theatre's most important theorist since Brecht."