Mediocrity has always been praised...

"I hope people write better plays. That's all I can hope. But I doubt if they will. Rubbish is always being produced through the ages, mediocrity has always been praised. That's simply what happens and most plays are only really liked in retrospect and hindsight.

"Formally, I'm trying to collapse a few boundaries as well. To carry on with making the form and content one. That's proving to be extremely difficult, and I'm not going to tell anybody how I'm doing it, so if any of you get there first I shall be furious."

Sarah Kane, interview by Dan Rebellato (1998)