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

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

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

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

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

I don't like sympathetic characters.