Katie Mitchell, British theatre's queen in exile | Charlotte Higgins
Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain's greatest living stage director " but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, can she make a triumphant return home?Katie Mitchell provokes strong reactions. Some think of her as a vandal, ripping apart classic texts and distorting them to her own dubious purpose. Others consider her to be the most important Br…