The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
I'm interested in the real world.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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.
The one overall structure in my plays is language
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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