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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's... →
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... →
Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done -... →
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes... →
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... →
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids... →
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... →
I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get... →
My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors is a huge... →
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales... →
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