Dealing with complexity...

One dimensional characters? Nah, Stephen Poliakoff celebrates the complexity of the human race:

"I've always thought people are more complex than the marketing men, or the political class, or the media class give them credit for. People can contain two contradictory ideas in their heads at the same time, so telling them what to think at the end of a play insults their intelligence. There are ways of showing different ways in which the world might be ordered. But not by pointing them out. Instead you try to deal with the complexity."

Read the full interview with The Guardian here.