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

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

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.

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

I'm interested in the real world.

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

I'm not interested in an imaginary world