LIFT boss Kris Nelson: ‘I have to predict where Londoners’ psyches are going to be’

In the planning since 2018, Kris Nelson’s inaugural curation of LIFT, London’s biennial international theatre festival, finally gets underway this month. He tells Kate Wyver how cutting his teeth directing festivals in Canada and Ireland taught him to read a city, about staying on top of current conversations and seeing London itself as a workshop