The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
David HareYou cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
David HareThe poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare