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

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

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.

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

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.