 Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. |
| We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. |
| You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama. |
| Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. |
| I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. |
| Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. |
| Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. |
| The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. |
| The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. |
| Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time. |
| The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. |
| We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. |
| It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. |
| Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. |
| The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. |
| I'm interested in the real world. |
| In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice. |
| Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. |
| I think there is no world without theatre. |
| But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. |
