We are living in a time when for many people the most vulnerable amongst us are objects of scorn.
Writings
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A woman enters a room. The room may be small or large, flooded with light or lit by a single candle.
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A commission is an invitation to respond, to consider a point of view or a set of circumstances other than my own or of my own invention.
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The Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture. Delivered at the Merlyn theatre, Malthouse, Melbourne, November 2006
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“Who should I seek to please? How can I know what would please them?”
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“A short play is within our grasp both emotionally and intellectually. Its totality can be held in the memory, its emotional force can be immediate.”
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“I believe that the text of a play must exist without qualification, without either the explanations or the interpretations of its author; it must stand alone”