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• Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to…
• It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain…
• You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
• A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,
• I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.
• I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
• I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
• I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
• I don't like sympathetic characters.
• I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
• I'm not interested in entertainment.
• I'm not interested in observed reality.

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