I Never Used To Kill Characters, Because

As You Write Plays, You Discover What You Believe. And Until You Know What You Believe, You Can't Write A Play.

My Father Always Said 'there's No Free Lunch.' My Father Was Right. There's No Free Lunch And There's No Free Market. The Market Is Rigged, The Market Is Always Rigged, And The Rigging Is In Favour Of The People Who Run The Market. That's What The Market Is. It's A Bent Casino. The House Always Wins.

Obviously Via Dolorosa Is Completely Artificial. It Is As Highly Wrought As Any Of My Plays. But Basically All The Artifice Is To Disguise Itself So You Don't Feel It's There. You're Attempting To Make The Artifice Like A Pane Of Glass That Simply Leads You Through To The Subject - Not To Decorate The Bloody Glass.

I Don't See The Theater As An Establishment. The National Theatre Has Always Seemed To Me A People's Theater. It Was Never Meant To Reinforce The Values Of The Government Of The Day, Nor Does It, Nor Should It.

In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.