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

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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

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

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world