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Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

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I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

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Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

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I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

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I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

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In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

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When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

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I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

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So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: August 25th, 1957

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