A new published interview with UK’s Open University can be found on their website HERE.
A snippet:
With the Greeks it’s more about stepping into something so old. It’s pre-Christian. For me, that’s a really fascinating space to be in. A lot of Western drama tends to be built around a kind of Christian model. I’m interested in stuff that’s pagan. I’m interested in ritual and ceremony in that sense. But I’m also interested in the fact that a lot of Western drama also comes from places that mimic or echo some of the deep problems in current society. Classical Athens was built on slave labour, right? There were people excluded from seeing the plays, it was for a very specific crowd. I think that all those things are mimicked in US culture. I want to acknowledge that because I think sometimes what happens with ancient Greek plays is that they’re divorced from their contexts. They’re seen as pristine artefacts. They’re not pristine. They’re actually quite dirty. I like the dirtiness of it, and I mean dirty in a socio-political sense. It’s dirty, it’s messy, it’s weird.