When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
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The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists.Howard Barker
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
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