My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.