"In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence."

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In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

— John Lahr