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

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

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.