During rehearsals of his new play, Howard Brenton and the company had a sudden realisation: they were willing partners in "the vast Ai Weiwei project". The Chinese dissident artist, a constant critic of his country's human rights policies, was arrested on his way to Hong Kong in 2011 because his travel would "damage state security" and detained for 81 days. Now he requested that this story be told in a play to be bas…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:14PM on April 17, 2013