I feel overestimated.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.