The Young Vic Theatre in Waterloo have just announced a really exciting line up of theatre for the next year as appropriate to their status as one of London’s major Off West End venues, with a formidable track record.
This is the final season with their current Artistic Director, David Lan in charge. The venue has recently recruited a new leader (tba).
The forthcoming productions include two helmed by Stephen Daldry, a formidable international talent who ran The Royal Court for a while and directed British and New York Theatre’s mega-hits An Inspector Calls and Billy Elliot. He’s had a busy Hollywood and TV career too (notably directing The Hours with Nicole Kidman and The Crown for Netflix) This has led to speculation that he could be the Young Vic’s new boss which would be very exciting indeed!
Their Production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell is about to open in the West End and if recently released photographs are anything to go by it’s going to be very steamy indeed.
The full line up of forthcoming Young Vic shows, with the way the marketing team are describing each production, is as follows -
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
NOW UNTIL 7 OCT | APOLLO THEATRE
Sienna Miller, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney star in Tennessee Williams’ searing poetic masterpiece.
WINGS
14 SEPT – 28 OCT
Juliet Stevenson delivers another extraordinary performance in Natalie Abrahami’s moving revival.
THE SUPPLIANT WOMEN
13 – 25 NOV 2017
One of the world’s oldest plays speaks to us through the ages with startling resonance for our troubled times.
HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY
30 NOV – 30 DEC 2017
“This musical about a cross-dressing Marquess is a work of genius” – The Daily Telegraph
THE JUNGLE
7 DEC – 6 JAN 2018
Meet the ever hopeful, ever inventive residents of the Calais refugee camp. Stephen Daldry & Justin Martin direct a powerful new play from Good Chance Theatre.
THE BROTHERS SIZE
19 JAN – 14 FEB 2018
A deeply moving fable about the rarely spoken bond between brothers and friends from the Oscar-winning writer of Moonlight.
THE INHERITANCE
2 MAR – 5 MAY 2018
Stephen Daldry directs this hilarious and profound world premiere in two parts by New York playwright Matthew Lopez.
FUN HOME
18 JUN – 1 SEPT 2018
Winner of 5 Tony Awards, this electrifying Broadway version of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel has its UK premiere.
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
29 SEPT – 21 OCT 2017
JMK Young Director Award Winner Josh Roche directs this stirring account of an extraordinary young woman.
After a popular and critically acclaimed time running Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Dominic Dromgoole has moved on to a new project aiming to demonstrate the power of the proscenium arch. What this describes is the traditional theatre set-up where by the audience sit in front of a stage and the action is framed by an architectural arch known as the proscenium, from an Ancient Greek term which roughly translates as “in front of the scenery”.