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Best of Enemies, Young Vic
James Graham finds an analogue for today’s culture war in 1968 USA. Your hosts are William F. Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal.
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Young Vic Theatre Appoints Kwame Kwei-Armah As New Artistic Director
Kwame Kwei-Armah will become the new Artistic Director in February 2018. Kwame Kwei-Armah is an award-winning director and playwright and the outgoing Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage where he directed extensively. Directing credits also include New York’s Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. His production…
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The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands to compose original music for Life of Galileo
BAFTA winner Joe Wright’s production of Brecht’s masterwork Life of Galileo will be accompanied by an original score composed by Tom Rowlands, founding member of the English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers. Joe and Tom first collaborated on the 2011 feature film, Hanna. Quote from Tom Rowlands: “When Joe approached me with the idea…
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Billie Piper returns to her role in Simon Stone’s Yerma as part of the Young Vic’s 2017 season
Billie Piper will return, for a limited season, to the critically-acclaimed Yerma from 26 July-31 August at the Young Vic. Billie Piper won the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016 for her performance in Simon Stone’s Yerma. Previous theatre credits include; Great Britain, The Effect – Oliver nomination…
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Blue/Orange, Young Vic, 18 May 2016
The Young Vic’s production of Joe Penahll’s Blue/Orange seems a timely revival about institutional racism and the NHS. Luke Norris (A View from a Bridge, Young Vic) stars as Bruce, a newly employed doctor at a mental health hospital in London, in charge of the mentally unstable Christopher, a young black man played by Daniel…
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