A desire for Duras: Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch on the writer's erotic, existential mystery
Part philosophical meditation, part fantasy, Marguerite Duras's 1982 novella La Maladie de la Mort comes to the stage in a hi-tech Edinburgh festival show There's something about Marguerite Duras that emboldens a theatre-maker. Almost two decades ago, Ivo van Hove staged the writer's India Song in a production so languid and dreamy that audiences felt no urgency to leave at the end, with the smell of citronella still…