SG: Why should you have respect just because he’s been doing it for a long time?
CS: (Laughing) Because he has got something, he’s got a kind of integrity and he’s got a vision. But for me, the idea that a play is about making points that you can enumerate seems to be the absolutely wrong way of looking at theatre. What I like about theatre is that it takes you by surprise and you find your sympathies engaged with arguments that you don’t agree with. Which goes right back to Richard III, really. What theatre can make you do, which is quite important about it, is identify and understand, even like and applaud people you would normally disapprove of. I don’t think there are many arts that do that.
SG: Well, the novel does that. And the novel does it actually better, I think, because you enter more fully into the consciousness of the character.
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