During his time as a student at the University of Sydney Bond wrote and performed in numerous student productions, notably the Architecture revues The Great Wall of Porridge and Balloon Dubloon. The later revue was developed into The Candy Striped Balloon, which was staged by the Phillip Street Theatre in 1969 and revised in 1970 as Drip Dry Dreams (presented both in Adelaide, as a Fringe Festival production, and in Sydney).