On Sunday March 3rd 2024, Edward Bond died.
This website has been his main portal to share his drama theory, his poems and correspondence, and his passionate engagement with the political crises of our times. As the website’s curator since taking over from Big Brum, I would like to invite your memories and ideas in the light of this sad news.
Speaking personally, Edward has been a lighthouse in a stormy sea. Battered, stubborn, lighting the way for many of us, challenging us, sometimes frustrating us. If we were lucky, he was fiercely loyal and generous. It is to be hoped that Edward’s passion, intellectual rigour and sly humour embodied in these texts will be shared widely especially amongst younger artists and students.
Please send your contributions to me at coulttony@gmail.com and I will upload them to the page called You and Edward in the Drop-down menu top right.
Tributes from Kate Katafiasz, Jeremy Warr, Adrian Buckle, Enzo Gattuccio, Françoise Gomez, Lisa Bolgar, Lewis Frost, Benjamin May, Wesley Ralston, Rit Chattapadhyay, Richard Holmes
TONY COULT
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
This Saturday, October 5 2024, there will be an online symposium/celebration of Edward Bond and his legacy. It will be hosted at the Alfortville Theatre in Paris, directed by Bond’s dramaturg David Tuaillon and the director Christian Benedetti.
https://theatre-studio.mapado.com/event/436049-hommage-a-edward-bond
recent postings are listed here. Postings can be opened here OR under the sections LISTED in the drop-down menu.
Letter to A Student and Teacher 22 November 2023 (see also The Present State of British Theatre/Drama for the World Crisis)
Modern Drama and Have I None - The Present State of British Theatre
The Audience as The Play Within The play – a letter to Emmanuelle Bouchez 26.06.23 (See Drama Theory)
Letter to the National Association of Teachers of Drama 6.06.2023 (see Drama Notes)
A Production of CHAIR in Malta - 6.06.23 (see Drama Notes)
ON SHAKESPEARE, DRAMA and OUR SITUATION (see Video & Audio)
Interview with Lewis Frost, director of Have I None, for Four Points Theatre, January 2023
Oar - 1.9.2022 (see Drama Theory)
Poem: A Meeting 27.9.22 (see Poems)
Letter to A Turkish Drama Teacher (see also Letters)
A Letter to H – War Putin Capitalism Drama (see Letters)
THE WEARY MACHINE (Answers to received questions February 2022)
A Carol for Ellis on his first Christmas
Notes on “The Under Room” ( Newman University) and on Meta Drama (see Drama Notes)
Letter to SK (Chicago) - Now, the Present Human Crisis and Trumpspeak 25.11.21(see Letters)
SAVED ONE AND TWO
9.11.21 (also see DRAMA NOTES)
OPERATING NOTES for the 21st CENTURY IMAGINATION: (also see DRAMA THEORY)
1. Rough Notes on Drama - Introduction
2. Rough Notes on Drama -The Basics
3. Rough Notes on Drama - The Four Elements of Drama
4. Rough Notes on Drama -What Drama Shouldn’t Do: Brecht
5. Rough Notes on Drama - What Does Drama Do?
6. Rough Notes on Drama - Stone Drama
ROUGH NOTES ON READING AN “OUCH” BOOK April 2021 (see Drama Theory)
YOUNG THEATRE - Some Questions January 2021 (see Drama Theory)
Something Happens – Drama and Rehearsals” 28.7.20 (See Drama Theory.)
CORONA CRISIS AND UNMASKING REALITY 3.5.20 (See Corona Politics and Drama)
CORONA CRISIS RESPONSIBILITY 24.4.20 (See Corona Politics and Drama)
A LETTER ON THE CORONA CRISIS 17.4.20 (see Corona Politics & Drama)
A SELF POEM IN TIME OF POLITICS AND PLAGUE 9.4.20 (see Corona Politics & Drama)
Haystack
A LETTER FROM A TEACHER IN INDIA with A POEM “ON OFFER” 8.4.20 (see Corona Politics & Drama)
I have received a letter from Rit Chattapadhyay, a colleague in India. His letter shows that even this late the change is still possible. That’s why I am repeating the letter here.
THE SHOE THIEF AND CORONA 25.3.20 (see Corona Politics & Drama)
“The Shoe Thief” is my latest play. I wrote it before the corona virus began. At that time it was still possible to understand.
10.03.20 On Drama’s Function Now - letter to Au Creux du Mot (see Letters)
Letter to Paris theatre group Au Creux du Mot on Drama’s function now
“Fascism and Brexit” A catastrophe, five pages, and a letter. (See Comment)
Dea Letter rev
Letter to Indian Student on “Dea” 30 3 19 (Modern drama, Euripdes, cultural contour map) - 8 pages See Letters