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Theater director Ivo van Hove isnt known for small gestures in his often merciless productions.
Blood rains from the ceiling.
Wolves stalk across the stage.
This December, hes bringing what he calls aWest Side Storyfor the 21st century to Broadway.
9/11 had a huge impact on my work in the millennium years.
My projects afterward around 2003, 2004, 2005 became much more political.
Im never searching for certain material.
I read the texts all the time I go to the movies, I read novels.
He always does the sets and the lights, but he is much more than that.
When I have an idea about what to do, he is the first person I go to.
What we do then together is also to look at which kind of production we are doing.
And I think thats really, let me say the word, bullshit.
Theater has always used new inventions in every century.
What interested you about arevival ofWest Side Story?American theater and playwrights and authors have always interested me.
Its about young people abandoned.
Its an amazing story about contemporary life, about young people who get stuck in a cycle of violence.
It talks about violence in the pure sense of the word.
