Foi autor de cerca de 50 peças, entre elas Saved (1965), cuja produção foi fundamental para a abolição da censura teatral no Reino Unido. Seus outros trabalhos bem recebidos incluem Narrow Road to the Deep North (1968), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981) e a trilogia War (1985). Bond foi amplamente considerado entre os principais dramaturgos vivos mas ele sempre foi e continua sendo altamente controverso por causa da violência mostrada em suas peças, o radicalismo de suas declarações sobre o teatro e a sociedade modernos, e suas teorias sobre o drama.[2][3]
Morte
Bond morreu em 3 de março de 2024, aos 89 anos.[4]
Lista de obras
Peças
(Datas de escrita, seguidas do diretor, local e data de estreia mundial, se houver)
The Pope's Wedding (1961–62) Keith Johnstone, Royal Court Theatre, Londres, 9 Dez. 1962
Saved (1964) William Gaskill, English Stage Society, Royal Court Theatre, Londres, 3 Nov. 1965
Bingo "scenes of money and death" (1973) Jane Howell & John Dove, Northcott Theatre, Nov. Exeter, 14 1973
The Fool "scenes of bread and love" (1974) Peter Gill, Royal Court Theatre London, 18 Nov. 1975
A-A-America !: Grandma Faust "a burlesque" and The Swing "a documentary" (1976) Jack Emery, Inter-Action's Ambiance Lunch-Hour Theatre Club, Almost Free Theatre, Londres. Grandma Faust: 25 Out.; The Swing: 22 Nov. 1976
Stone "a short Play" (1976) Gerald Chapman, Gay Sweatshop, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, 8 Jun. 1976
The Woman "scenes of war and freedom" (1974–1977) Edward Bond, National Theatre (Olivier Stage), Londres, 10 Ago. 1978
The Bundle or New Narrow Road to the Deep North (1977) Howard Davies, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Warehouse Theatre, Londres, 13 Jan.1978
The Worlds (1979) Edward Bond, Newcastle University Theatre Society, Newcastle Playhouse, 8 Mar. 1979
Restoration "a pastorale" (1979–80) Edward Bond, Royal Court Theatre, Londres, 22 Jul. 1981
Summer "a European play" (1980–81) Edward Bond, National Theatre (Cottlesloe Stage), Londres, 27 Jan.1982
Derek (1982) Nick Hamm, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford On Avon, 18 Out. 1982
Human Cannon (1979–1983) Dan Baron Cohen, Quantum Theatre Company, Manchester, 2 February 1986
The War Plays: Red Black and Ignorant (1983–84) Nick Hamm (as The Unknown Citizen), Royal Shakespeare Company, pour le festival "Thoughtcrimes", Barbican Pit, Londres, 19 Jan.1984; The Tin Can People (1984) Nick Philippou, Bread and Circus Theatre, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, 4 Mai. 1984; Great Peace (1984–85) Nick Hamm, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Pit, Londres, 17 Jul. 1985; premiered as a trilogy: Nick Hamm, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Pit, Londres, 25 Jul. 1985
Jackets or The Secret Hand (1986) Keith Sturgess, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Lancaster, Nuffield studio, Lancaster, 24 Jan.1989
The Under Room (2005) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 9 Out. 2005
Chair, stage version (2005) Alain Françon (as Chaise) Festival d'Avignon, 18 Jul. 2006
Arcade (2006) John Doona, Chester, 21 Set. 2006
Tune (2006) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 2007
Innocence (2008), não realizada
A Window (2009) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 12 Out. 2009
There Will Be More (2010) (early version of the first part of Dea) Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Good Night Out Presents, The Cock Tavern Theatre, 26 Out. 2010
The Edge (2011) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 15 Out. 2012
The Broken Bowl (2012) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 24 Abril 2012
The Angry Roads (2014) Chris Cooper, Big Brum Theatre in Education Company, 6 Out. 2014
The Price of One (2016) Chris Cooper, Unifaun Theatre Productions & Teatru Manoel, Manoel Theatre, Valletta (Malta), 8 Abril 2016
We Come to the river "Actions for Music in Two Parts and Eleven Scenes", 1972/74, in The Fool, Londres, Eyre Methuen, 1976
The Cat "a story for music", 1979, in Restoration, Londres, Methuen, 1982, from Honoré de Balzac's Peines d'amour d'une chatte anglaise, music by H.W. Henze; recorded as: The English Cat, "Ein Geschichte für Sänger und Instrumentalisten von Edward Bond", Parnassus Orchestra London, dir.: Markus Stenz-Peter Doll, Mayence, Wergo, 2 CD, WER 62042, 1989
Libretti para balés
Text for a Ballet: for Dancers, Chorus and Orchestra (1977), partially published as From an Unfinished Ballet, in Theatre Poems and Songs, Londres, Methuen, 1980
Peças de teatro ("edição uniformizada"; nove volumes de Methuen, Londres)
Plays: 1 (1977): Author's note: On Violence; Saved, Early morning; Pope's Wedding
Plays: 2 (1978): Introduction; Preface to Lear; Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to The Deep North, Black Mass; Passion
Plays: 3 (1987): Four Pieces; Introduction to Bingo, Bingo; Introduction to The Fool; The Fool; Clare Poems; The Woman; Poems, Stories and Essays for The Woman; Author's note; Stone
Plays: 4 (1992): The Worlds; The Activists Papers; Restoration; Restoration Poems and Stories; Summer; Summer Poems
Plays: 5 (1996): Human Cannon, The Bundle; In the Company of Men; Jackets
Plays: 6 (1998): Choruses from After the Assassinations; War Plays; Commentary on the War Plays
Plays: 7 (2003): The Cap; The Crime of the Twenty-first Century; Olly's Prison; Notes on Imagination; Coffee; The Swing; Derek; Fables and Stories
Plays: 8 (2006): Born, People, Chair, Existence, The Under Room
Plays: 9 (2011): Innocence, Window, Tune, Balancing Act, The Edge
Plays: 10 (2018): Dea, The Testament of this Day, The Price of One, The Angry Roads, The Hungry Bowl
Outras peças (por Methuen, Londres)
Lear, Student Edition, com Comentários e Notas de Patricia Hern (1983)
Olly's Prison, versão teatral e televisiva (1993)
At the Inland Sea (1997)
Eleven Vests com Tuesday (1997)
The Children com Have I None (2001)
Saved, Student Edition, com Comentários e Notas de David Davis (2008)
The Chair Plays: Have I None, The Under Room and Chair (2012)
Dea (2016)
Escritos teóricos selecionados
A Note on Dramatic Method (1977), in: The Bundle, Londres, Methuen, 1978
The Activists Papers (1980) in Plays 4, Londres, Methuen, 1992
Introduction, for The Fool, in Plays 3, Londres, Methuen, 1987
The Dramatic Child (1992), in Tuesday, Londres, Methuen, 1992
Notes on Imagination, in: Coffee, Londres, Methuen, 1995
Notes on Post-modernism (1989) in: Plays 5, Londres, Methuen, 1996
The Hidden Plot Notes on Theatre and the State, Londres, Methuen, 2000
Drama Devices (2004), in David Davis (ed.): Edward Bond and the Dramatic Child, Edward Bond's Plays for Young People, Londres, Trentham Books, 2005
"Something of Myself" (2004), in David Davis (ed.): Edward Bond and the Dramatic Child, Edward Bond's Plays for Young People, Londres, Trentham Books, 2005
Cartas, selecionadas e editadas por Ian Stuart:
I, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994
II, Luxemburgo, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995
III, Amsterdã, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996
4, Amsterdã, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998
5, Londres, Routledge, 2001
Seleções dos Cadernos de Edward Bond, editados por Ian Stuart, Londres, Methuen,
↑Mccarrick, Jaki (20 de janeiro de 2017). «Ideas of war, riot and murder – Theatre». TLS (em inglês). Consultado em 28 de junho de 2020 "Regularly hailed as Britain’s greatest living playwright, [...]"
↑Quirke, Kieron (17 de novembro de 2002). «Fringe theatre roundup». The Guardian (em inglês). Consultado em 30 de março de 2021 "The French think Bond is among the greatest British playwrights and theatre's most important theorist since Brecht."