Had Mr Bush's harsh words made it think again about its tentative opening up to the outside world, including its leader's much-delayed return visit to Seoul?
"It was a compliment, a nice thing to say to me, but I shrugged it off, never thought again about it," James said.
"But if that's not to be the case, we have to think again about leaving it as the conservatives, the George Christensens of the world and the Christian lobby want it, 'let's put it off in the hope it will never happen'.
Messy, compelling and touched by a despairing, desperate beauty, Simon Stephens and Michael Longhurst's production was a fruitful act of cultural vandalism that excavated our lonely, fractured lives and dared British theatre to think again about how it handles familiar stories.
If someone can send you this in response to your question, think again about asking it.
The government needs to think again about these if it is to tackle the long-term problems before us.
It is essential to think again about them, just as it is essential to toss out Iran caricatures.
"If the government can think again about pasties and caravans it can certainly do so about the important issue of marriage," he said.
"They need to think again about the idea that it is the technology that people are attracted to, rather than the credit.
