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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.
Mar 5, 2024 · Edward Bond, who wrote more than 50 plays, including Lear and The Sea, passed away on Sunday. He was known for his social commentary and his incendiary works that challenged censorship and sparked public outrage.
Mar 5, 2024 · No modern British dramatist polarized his countrymen as much as Edward Bond, who died on Sunday at age 89. To some, he was an unholy terror, relentless in his doctrinaire socialism and...
- Benedict Nightingale
Mar 5, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — Edward Bond, a playwright who shocked the British theater world with his explosive 1965 drama “Saved,” has died, his agent said Tuesday. He was 89. Bond’s literary agency, Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, said that he died on Sunday.
- jlawless@ap.org
- London Correspondent
Mar 8, 2024 · Edward Bond, an English dramatist whose plays — uncompromising and often shocking, with searing scenes of sex, violence and urban savagery — helped spur the abolition of theater censorship in...
Mar 5, 2024 · Bond was known for his radical and original works that challenged censorship and authority, such as Saved and Early Morning. He also wrote screenplays for Blow-Up, Walkabout and Laughter in the Dark.
Mar 5, 2024 · The British playwright Edward Bond died on Sunday, March 3, aged 89, in the house where he lived in the countryside near Cambridge, United Kingdom.
