Patrice Chéreau: directing in the shadow of death
The great French director, who died recently, took some persuading to do a play in London " and was seriously ill when he did. But the experience was life-changing, recalls the Young Vic's artistic directorThe massive grey church of Saint-Sulpice dominates a part of the left bank of Paris just behind the sumptuous Odéon theatre. It's around the corner from where Patrice Chéreau grew up in a family of artists " pain…