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

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

The one overall structure in my plays is language

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.

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