Sean Holmes takes on Brecht

20th December 2006

 

INTERVIEW: SEAN HOLMES

The director talks to Heather Neill about staging Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle as the National Theatre’s 2007 touring show, in a new version by Frank McGuinness, produced in collaboration with Filter theatre company.

If you release everyone’s imagination in the room, it leads to argument but also to a stronger, more vivid language.