I'm interested in the real world.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

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

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