As You Write Plays, You Discover What

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.

An Inability To Handle Language Is Not The Same Thing As Stupidity.

The Theatre Is The Best Way Of Showing The Gap Between What Is Said And What Is Seen To Be Done, And That Is Why, Ragged And Gap-toothed As It Is, It Has Still A Far Healthier Potential Than Some Poorer, Abandoned Arts.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.

In Those Days, The Early 1980s, Tv And Film Were Interchangeable.