Drama about art: to do or not to do? Ivo van Hove and Sallie Harmsen think so.

The National Theatre will premiere Blueprint for an Even Better Life on 8 November 2014, which addresses, among other things, the position of artists in society. A theme that also featured in their recent Tasso, and in Toneelgroep Amsterdam's successful The Fountainhead. Is the subject of 'art' back on the theatre agenda due to the changed cultural politics of recent years? Isn't 'art about art' navel-gazing? And how does the artist himself actually feel in the soc...