"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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"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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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."

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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."

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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."

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."

"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."

"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."

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"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."