Simon McBurney: I wasn't thinking of Trump but Beware of Pity is chillingly resonant
The director describes the gruesome appeal of staging Stefan Zweig's novel about the faultlines running through a society on the brink of destruction"Why Zweig? Eeeuwww …"No. That doesn't quite do it. I am trying to re-create the sound that Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, makes when I propose to him that I adapt and direct Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig's novel of betrayal a…