What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
From Edward Bond
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
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.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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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