What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
I'm not interested in an imaginary 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