The one overall structure in my plays is language

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

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

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

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.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

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