“To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”

“Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.”

“My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.”

“To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”