‘We have to tell HARD STORIES’

Theatre director and playwright Yaël Farber is spending time in South Africa after her critically acclaimed run of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre in London. We chatted to her about the importance of the pursuit of truth.

CHARIS TORRANCE

‘It felt like this was the one place where the truth was being told.’ Thas to be transformative. It has to in some way have with some small, infinitesimal or more sweeping experience,’ Yaël Farber says. Her recent production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre in London was praised by critics across the board: a reviewer for The Times called it ‘one of the best Shakespeare plays I’ve ever seen’; The Guardian described it as ‘shockingly vicious and supremely moving’; and Time Out hailed it as ‘a gripping piece of entertainment’. Yaël has earned a reputation for hard-hitting, visceral psychodramas that hold a mirror up to society – something we clearly want or need because her productions have toured extensively around the world. Before King Lear, she directed Elena…

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