“I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.”
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
