"I don't think that you can be an artist if you are simply trying to gauge what the acceptable point of view is. Or, indeed, if you are using your art as a conduit to express whatever the vogueish ideology of the time happens to be. And that is what has happened. If you go to any theatrical production in the [United Kingdom] now, nine times out of ten it will be a sermon disguised as a piece of entertainment."
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"Andrew Doyle - Puritanism & Antisemitism" (at 8m36s), Dekonstruktiv kritik, 6 November 2023.
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