Edward Bond
English playwright
Died when: 89 years 229 days (1075 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) was 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.
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 is broadly considered 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.
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