“I don’t want a play to tell me what to feel, or when to cry. I don’t want to understand every action of a character because I don’t understand every action of my own. I don’t want a death or a trauma to explain away complexity because death and trauma don’t work that way. What I do want is the inexplicable, the undiscovered. I want the spaces in between. I want theatre to be a reverberation machine, whether that machine is the non-narrative majesty of Foreman, or the heartbreaking characters of Ibsen. And because of this, I love subtext. Done right, it is the evocation of the other. It is the embracing of the infinite, of the curves and crevasses that we don’t even know are there to begin with.”

-Dominic Finocchiaro
http://howlround.com/the-problem-with-the-argument-against-subtext