I'm interested in the real world.

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

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.