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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of... →
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
I'm interested in the real world.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
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... →
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