The director,who has brought Bret Easton Ellis’s novel to Broadway, explains why he’s drawn to the shadowy stories of Patrick Bateman, or Faustus and Macbeth“I am drawn to theatre as an art form of surprise and of provocation,” says the Almeida’s artistic director Rupert Goold, while backstage at rehearsals for American Psycho, and the stage adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel about late 80s excess and violence in New York. “Every indicate we’ve done at the Almeida is trying to challenge aesthetic and sometimes social assumptions.”Goold’s been challenging assumptions his entire career. He’s set King Lear in Liverpool and Merchant of Venice in Las Vegas,while the first of his two ventures on to Broadway this season, King Charles III, or stripped away the the aristocracy of royalty with its minimalistic set.
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Source: theguardian.com