Thas to be transformative. It has to in some way have with some small, infinitesimal or more sweeping experience,’ Yaël Farber says. Her recent production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre in London was praised by critics across the board: a reviewer for The Times called it ‘one of the best Shakespeare plays I’ve ever seen’; The Guardian described it as ‘shockingly vicious and supremely moving’; and Time Out hailed it as ‘a gripping piece of entertainment’.
Yaël has earned a reputation for hard-hitting, visceral psychodramas that hold a mirror up to society – something we clearly want or need because her productions have toured extensively around the world. Before , she directed Elena Ferrante’s for the National Theatre of Iceland in Reykjavik (2022). at the Almeida Theatre in 2021 saw her direct four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle as the scheming couple. And in her revisioning of in 2020, Oscar
