Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.
Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.
We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.
We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.