It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
I may be 80, but I intend to keep acting until the day I die. Instead of slowing down, I've discovered my second wind.
I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it not only satisfying but releasing. It gave me an opportunity to play with language. We never played the characters like the yobs that they are, but rather in a slightly heightened way.