“I often sit in theatres and wonder why the audience doesn’t just storm the stage in protest at the tedium being inflicted. But there is a difference between dull and boring. Dull is something that is really not very interesting; feeling bored in the theatre is often more to do with incomprehension and sitting through something that you can’t find a way into, something that perhaps just isn’t to your personal taste. This just means that you have to work far harder at it to get a reward.”