Calixto Bieito: 'Shakespeare's theatre was full of blood and violence'

Calixto Bieito's productions brim with nudity, sex, and violence. Now the Catalan director turns his hand to an arboreal Shakespearean mash-upCalixto Bieito's rehearsal room is in a state of chaos. A huge pile of soil has been tipped over the floor; actors writhe and squirm through the mulch beneath a blasted tree festooned with red balloons. It looks like a cross between a garden centre, a children's party and one of Samuel Beckett's bleaker visions.It is in fact the setting for Bieito's latest...

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