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Ivo van Hove

“I want to make the most extreme art without compromising”

Big InterviewsJul 3, 2019Director

Ivo van Hove returns with The Fountainhead at the Manchester International Festival this month just weeks after his last production All About Eve completed its West End run. The visionary workaholic director discusses his career with Fergus Morgan and describes how he fell in love with Ayn Rand’s ode to extreme liberalism

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