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Nature 457, 385 (22 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457385a; Published online 21 January 2009

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Scripting scientists' lives

Jascha Hoffman1

ARTS REVIEWED: Leave a Light On

Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City
22 January 2009. Part of the First Light Festival, which runs until March 2009.

Last year, at a first reading of her play about the life of biologist Robert Trivers, Ann Marie Healy noticed a stranger in the back of the theatre, laughing. Afterwards, the man strode over to the actor who had played the young biologist as a foul-mouthed and promiscuous genius working out the evolutionary logic of human kindness and conflict, and said: "You got it exactly right.