US drag artist Taylor Mac, an empathy museum and a bedtime story are all part of the lineup for the 21st Lift. What can a programme dominated by work from other countries tell us about ourselves?In 2014, at the launch of the 20th London international festival of theatre (Lift), the festival's director Mark Ball told me that the programme reflected his feeling that theatre was "a map of the world". That's true too of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AM on February 8, 2016