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

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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.

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

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