I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
