The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

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

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

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

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.