Edward Bond, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edward Bond

English writer best known as a dramatist

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1934

Place of Birth: London

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, theater director, librettist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is 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.
Bond is broadly considered one 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.