You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.