As some of you may know, I’ve been working a little bit with the Young Vic over the past few months, variously doing some of the workshopping on BABEL which will be the centrepiece of the World Stages London season, featuring a cast of around 500 performers brough together by The Young Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Lyric, Hammersmith; and also doing some education workshops to support Ian Rickson’s astonishing production of Hamlet starring Michael Sheen.
My latest, and most exciting project for The Young Vic will be my very own show (only running for three performances!) in The Maria, this summer. Working with a cast of young people, the Linbury Prize-winning designer Jean Chan and an exciting young composer called Nick Jones, I’ll be creating my own version of Peter Brook’s THE SUIT, to run alongside the mainhouse show.
Balancing the challenges of creating something artistically exciting and supporting an inexperienced cast in a show that will include storytelling, song and dance is going to be quite something. Keep your eyes peeled for more info.
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