without a shadow of a doubt, even producing the play that's on at the young vic now, beneatha's placeied for a while. i was worried that those of the right or even those of the left might come after me for some of the statements or some of the debates that the play wishes to catalyse. but i'm an artist. we're here to do nothing but catalyse. i can't run in fearfrom people trying to counsel you or use... ..use your work as an agenda for theirs. i want to talk more about beneatha's place, because i was lucky enough to see it just a night or two ago. so i do want to talk about it and the issues it raises. but before we get to that, just a more general point about your writing, because you've been at it for a long time. yeah. do you see yourself as something of a provocateur? i describe myself as a political playwright, that art is my tool for change — incremental change. all you can do as an artist is catalyse the debate. and i don't see the point of me using my art if it's not to incrementally try and make the world just a little bit better. yeah, but there's a difference between cataly