Playwright

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.