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ccc Van Hove transitioned from his status as an avant-garde darling to a mainstay of the mainstream a decade or so ago with his stripped-back A View from the Bridge, which travelled from the Young Vic to the West End and then Broadway, where he later revived The Crucible in a starry production that divided opinion which knocked me for six. (View won him both an Olivier and a Tony. 

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