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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
- Empire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Theatre
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is no world without theatre.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the real world.
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Overall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one overall structure in my plays is language.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020