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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."

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

"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"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."

"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."

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."

"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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