Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.