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Breaking Baz: Willem Dafoe Warns Of Trump’s Interference In The Arts As He Launches Program For Venice Biennale Theater Festival


Willem Dafoe Says Donald Trump Should Leave Art To “The People” As Star Launches His Venice Theatre Festival Selection.

His friend and one-time partner, Elizabeth LeCompte, who co-founded Wooster Group with Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia), will honor New York avant-garde pioneer Richard Foreman, who died in January. He will honor those who were involved in the seminal 1975 Biennale Teatro, which was directed by the late Luca Ronconi, the renowned Italian actor, and theatre, film and opera director widely hailed as the “cornerstone of the experiences of new theater” Romeo Castellucci, the Italian theatre director, playwright artist, designer who has previously collaborated with Dafoe, will stage the world premiere of a site-specific creation, I mangiatori di patate,on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, a one time leper colony located a few metres away from the western tip of the Venice Lido.

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