Europe theatre prize: Peter Stein seethes and Vesturport vaults | Michael Billington
In St Petersburg, the German great received a long-overdue award but ran into technical difficulties, while the Icelandic acrobats made a huge leap in public estimationSt Petersburg proved the ideal venue for the 14th Europe theatre prize event, which came to a grand conclusion on Sunday. It is, after all, a city built on an epic scale and full of dramatic contrasts. One morning I went to a Russian Orthodox service a…