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

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

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

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

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

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

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