(London) Playwright Edward Bond, a figure in post-war British theater who entered the Comédie-Française repertoire in 2016, has died at the age of 89, his agent in the United Kingdom said on Tuesday.
“Sadly, Edward Bond died on Sunday at the age of 89,” said the Casarotto Ramsay and Associate agency in a statement sent to AFP.
Born in 1934 in north London, Edward Bond was the author of more than 50 plays, film scripts and opera librettos, and was known in France thanks to the work of director Alain Françon.
Early in his career in the United Kingdom, his play Saved (1965) sparked controversy and was banned for a violent scene showing the stoning of a baby.
The controversy surrounding this work is credited with playing an important role in the abolition of theater censorship in the country in 1968.
Among his best-known works are The sea (1973), entry into the Comédie-Française repertoire in 2016, or even The Company of Men (1990).