Jefferson Hack is joined by two-time Olivier Award-winning stage designer and artist Es Devlin in a free-ranging and awe-inspiring exchange. Devlin’s collaborators have ranged from U2, Adele and Beyoncé to Sam Mendes and Nicolas Ghesquière, and her sets take on an equally epic scale, with floating platforms, jumbo screens, vast bridges and a giant ring of fire in the Agafay desert in Morocco to name a mere few. Her work is incredibly powerful, imbued with a wonder for nature, humanity and technology and, in her hypnotic voice, her words here are too.
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