Talking first about their experiences directing the unsettling and confrontational aspects of Shakespeare’s works, these three directors will turn to several of their other productions and then to a more general discussion of the properties of dramatic form which most engage, excite, upset, and disconcert us all. CORINNE JABER is an internationally active director who trained under Monika Pagneux and Philip Gaulier in Paris. She performed in Peter Brook’s Mahabharata and in Irina Brook’s Beast on the Moon, and has recently returned to the Mahabharata via Karhtika Nair’s Until the Lions: Corinne’s theatrical adaptation of this piece is currently in development. ATRI BANERJEE is the Artistic Lead at the Gate Theatre, where he has directed Scenes for the Climate Era and This Room, Now. In 2023 he directed a touring production of Julius Caesar for the RSC which utilised, in each venue, a different chorus drawn from the local community. Atri has also directed at the Almeida (Look Back in Anger) and at the Royal Exchange (productions included Hobson’s Choice, The Glass Menagerie and Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s SHED: Exploded View.) His Bush Theatre production of HARM was adapted for film and screened by BBC 4 in 2021. Atri won Best Director at The Stage Debut Awards in 2019, and in 2022 was listed in The Stage 25 as ‘one to watch’. He studied English at Cambridge and on the MFA Theatre Directing course at Birkbeck. ANDREW QUICK is the co-founder and co-artistic director for imitating the dog, a company which fuses live performance with digital technology, creating ‘spectacular, innovative theatre, as dramatically forceful and thought-provoking as it is entertaining’ (Guardian). Their current project, an adaptation of War of the Worlds, appears at the Cambridge Arts Theatre between 29th April and 2nd May. Previous productions include a Macbeth named by The Times and The Guardian as one of the best live events to attend in 2023, and a production of Lear set in a psychiatric hospital and mounted at the Teatro de la Universidad Catolica in Chile, starring Hugo Medina.