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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends.... →
I think there is no world without theatre.
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
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.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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