Adriano Shaplin of the Riot Group talks science

23rd November 2008

 

INTERVIEW: ADRIANO SHAPLIN

The American playwright and director talks about his first commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (currently at Wilton’s Music Hall). Mark Brown quizzes.

I make the claim that 85 per cent of the play is true. When you make art you shouldn’t write about what you know, but about what you don’t know.