New play about Isaac Newton tells story of time he supposedly put a needle in his eye

PRI.ORG: Most plays about historical events and figures take liberties with the facts — you probably couldn’t write a good play if you didn’t. Audiences, though, can be distracted by wondering whether some specific fact was really true? Lucas Hnath’s new play about Isaac Newton handles the problem in a unique way: every fact introduced in the play is written on a wall, in chalk, by a narrator character.