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

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

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.