'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!