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Aug 25, 2018 · La Maladie de la Mort is another collaboration between the playwright Alice Birch and the director Katie Mitchell – perhaps Britain’s most highly renowned theatre maker.
The Man—played by Nick Fletcher in this adaptation of Duras’s text by director Katie Mitchell and adaptor-translator Alice Birch at the Barbican Theatre (and first seen in Edinburgh earlier this year)—pays The Woman, Laetitia Dosch, to come to his room for three nights and have sex with him, so that he might learn to know love and feel ...
Oct 8, 2018 · The waves are rolling in or moving out: Rosemary Waugh reviews Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s latest collaboration.
More than thirty years after the French-born novelist, playwright and film-maker penned her first person study of intimate exchanges, director Katie Mitchell and writer Alice Birch have risen to the challenge with a provocative and daring staging of Duras’ book.
Oct 6, 2018 · Maddy Costa chats to Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch about gender inequality and how they worked together on The Malady of Death.
Mar 13, 2018 · Playwright Alice Birch and director Katie Mitchell will stage an updated version of Marguerite Duras’s The Malady of Death for the new Barbican season.
This piece of theatre is inspired by La Maladie de la Mort, Marguerite Duras’ 1982 novella. The original text explored a homosexual’s purchase of a woman in a vain search for love. Alice Birch overturns the premise by making the protagonist a heterosexual middle aged man who buys a prostitute’s nights in an existential search for his own ...
