Edward Bond Wife: Was Edward Bond Married?: English playwright, theatre director, poet, dramatic theorist, and screenwriter, Edward Bond, also known as Thomas Edward Bond has died, aged 89.
He was the author of some 50 plays, among them Saved, the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK.
Edward Bond died on Sunday, March 3, 2024, his literary agency, Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, disclosed but didn’t mention the cause of death making it unknown whether he battled any form of illness or died in an accident.
Edward Bond Wife: Was Edward Bond Married?
It’s unknown to us whether Edward Bond was married, engaged, or divorced at the time he died. He was married to Elisabeth Pable from 1971 until she died in 2017. They lived in Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Following the demise of Elisabeth, it’s unclear whether he married again.
Born in 1938, Bond’s childhood was overshadowed by World War II, which saw the city repeatedly bombed.
He left school at 15, worked in factories, and served two years of national service in the army before gaining success as a writer.
His first play, “The Pope’s Wedding,” was staged in 1962 at London’s Royal Court Theatre, which shook up British drama with plays by Bond, John Osborne and other writers dubbed the “angry young men”
Three years later, the same venue staged “Saved,” a play about alienated urban youth that included a scene in which a gang of teenagers stones a baby to death in its pram.
At the time, plays needed approval from an official known as the Lord Chamberlain, and the Royal Court was prosecuted for staging “Saved” without a license
Among its defenders was actor-director Laurence Olivier, who wrote to The Observer newspaper: ‘Saved’ is not a play for children but it is for grown-ups, and the grown-ups of this country should have the courage to look at it”
The theater lost the case, and both “Saved” and Bond’s next play, “Early Morning,” a scabrous satire on British royalty, were banned in Britain.
The controversy sparked a legal review that, in 1968, ended stage censorship in Britain. “Saved” is now regarded as a modern classic and has been produced around the world.
Bond wrote more than 50 plays, including the 18th-century class comedy “Restoration” and the trilogy “The War Plays”
He influenced younger playwrights, notably the late Sarah Kane, whose 1995 play “Blasted” shocked audiences as much as “Saved” had 30 years earlier.
His final play to be staged, in 2016, was “Dea,” a forceful adaptation of the Greek tragedy “Medea.”
He also worked on movie screenplays, including “Blow-Up”— which earned him an Academy Award nomination; “Laughter in the Dark” and “Walkabout”
Source: Ghgossip.com
