Ruth Mackenzie was sacked from her last big job, as artistic director for Paris’s storied Theatre du Chatelet, but has still been chosen to curate South Australia’s performing arts centrepiece.
Director Barrie Kosky dusts off a 113-year-old tale of a tsar’s midlife crisis, never before seen in Australia – and the result is dizzying and hypnotic
Kosky is known globally for breathing spectacular excess into old work. As the Golden Cockerel opens at Adelaide festival, he discusses his boldest moments