The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, is Rau\u2019s method eating itself?<\/p>\n
Milo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is a little less buoyant these days. The Swiss theatre-maker has done something he says he explicitly hates: he has cancelled a guest. \u201cYes, we hit a wall,\u201d he says. \u201cBut at least it made the wall visible.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his capacity as the artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen theatre festival, Rau, at the end of last month, first invited, then disinvited, the American tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The Austrian weekly Falter called it a fiasco.<\/p>\n
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