Aung San Suu Kyi is an absent presence at this year's Brighton festival
Artists may bemoan the lack of contact, but there's no better way to highlight the festival theme of civil liberty than with the certainty its guest director won't be in the audienceThat unmistakably luminous face may be gazing out from programmes and posters all across town, but this year the Brighton festival's guest director is very much remarkable by her absence. Although Burma's democracy leader and Nobel peace …