The One Thing That Via Dolorosa Has

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.

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.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

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

Trying To Be A Socialist And A Libertarian Is Obviously A Very Difficult Balancing Act, Which Nobody Has Pulled Off Too Successfully In This Century.