That would be doing to our audience and our repertoire what I’m moaning about.

We really opened up for the film of King George, but then the places where its characters lived and worked cried out to be opened up. The world of this story is the school, so...

I had a guess what it might be about, but this took me completely by surprise. And he delivers a play, as he puts it, before he truly knows what it’s about. He wants a...

Even in rehearsals, I didn’t realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: ‘It’s brilliant, but it’s quite esoteric.’ We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

Mike was a little nervous … We weren’t, because his reputation is so immense.

There is a new climate of religious intolerance in Britain. Whatever the government says, this new bill is pandering to that intolerance.

They are all kind of the same letter, all handwritten or typed. They all assume that the play is about Paul’s being homosexual and misogynist; they assume it’s going to be a prurient hatchet job.

They have been working on it for the past nine months and I have been absolutely thrilled by the stuff they have been producing together.

I think there would have been a time when the basic history would have been common knowledge. You could have been certain that when the king comes on at the beginning — ‘So shaken as...

It’s almost as if he’s challenging you and himself to go further with the stuff that may be the most painful to write. The relationship between Irwin and [student] Dakin was there, but it is...