It has unwillingly crawled up an intellectual fox-hole pursued by marketing hounds, refusing to come out even when attacked by ferocious terriers. Push down on the jelly from the top and it all runs out the side. Two planks and a passion. The first plank the stage, the second the ideology on which to build the passion. The passion is to spread that ideology.
All art is political.
It is protest. At its highest point it is a powerful instrument of social change. The position of theatre within society, makes it ideally placed to aid that change and we, the artists, the theatre practitioners, have a duty to fulfil our chosen role as purveyors and vendors of truth as we see it. This can change daily and the theatre responds accordingly, altering its perspective. It is the live contact of an audience, the instant response to what is said.