Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.