Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.