![]() ![]() The trouble is that the advocate of democratic equality in the story, Ellsworth M Toohey, is a columnist with a pathological power-lust. ![]() Rand clearly endorses Roark’s view that “no man can live for another”. What skews the story, including this faithful dramatisation, is the loaded nature of the argument. Rand’s book is a hymn to “rational selfishness” and rugged individualism as embodied in Howard Roark, a modernist architect of genius at odds with a culture that worships compromise, mediocrity and, in public buildings, a fake classicism. But, while it is good to find the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam paying its first visit to Manchester as part of the current festival and while Van Hove’s production displays his characteristic virtuosity, I wish all this phenomenal talent were devoted to something other than a four-hour version of Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel, which has become the bible of the American right. I vo van Hove is the most ubiquitous of modern directors. ![]()
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