At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

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

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

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

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

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