It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.