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

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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

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