Tiago Rodrigues, playwright: “I have more questions and I do theater. If I had more answers, I would do politics”

This is a conversation about theater and democracy. Also about theater and life. Tiago Rodrigues (Amadora, Portugal, 48) arrived on stage at age 14 with no more expectations than to scare away loneliness and, three decades later, became the first foreign director of the Avignon Festival (France). In Portugal he was six years in charge of the National Theatre Dona Maria II and founded the company Mundo Perfeitao along with his partner, the actres…