Those &^%$ Greeks thought of everything (Dionysians vs Apollonians)

"I emerged in the late 1960s when a lot of writers felt they could take society by the scruff of the neck and change things, which now looks a romantic notion," he says. "What a classicist does is try to order things, which I guess was my chosen lot."

"I've always been fascinated by the opposition between radicals and liberals," he says. "It's a tension that exists in all my plays, but there is never a final decision.

As a writer, you can't hope to change society. All you can do is shift people's perspective on what you see as the truth."

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2042912,00.html