I write about most of us, rather than some of us.
Some writers seem happy to imagine worlds extremely remote from themselves and their audiences.
The above utterance is from Britain s most popular living playwright. Only Shakespeare gets more productions. One of the reasons, Ayckbourn thinks is, that the intellectual class has hijacked theatre and he is angry about it. It puts so many people off, seeing them all sitting around on late night television talking as if theatre is some holy ritual. I hate issue-based theatre as a social platform.