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

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

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

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.