The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.