A four-hour play based on one of the few novels Donald Trump has enjoyed and admired is to get its UK premiere at the Manchester international festival. The director David Lynch will be celebrated with movie screenings, music gigs and the largest ever UK exhibition of his visual art. There will be 20 UK and world premieres in the second festival under the leadership of John McGrath, it was announced on Thursday. The Guardian’s Andrew Todd, reviewing the 2014 production at the Avignon festival, praised it as a “fresh and complex” rereading of the novel. They are taking over the city’s forgotten Mayfield railway station and depot in a project inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities.

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2019 12:30 UTC