A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

They basically had a comedy of errors going.

It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.