Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.