When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
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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.
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Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
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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.
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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
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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 situation further before we will understand it.
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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. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
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