I tell the story. Tell stories about people, not ideas. To make your work transcend the immediate demands of critics or sometimes even audiences. If you're going to try and transcend, you're not going to. If you're going to attempt to write the great universal work, you won't.
Transcendence comes by itself.
Well, I think that's it for now. I suppose I could ask you more questions, maybe even clever ones. Because you can't just put anyone next to Boesman. That's how I deal with my insomnia. The world premiere of The Captain's Tiger is at Pretoria's State Theatre until August 23 and at the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg from September 4.