Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

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

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

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.