A Young Vic production AView from the
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Running time: 1 hour 55 mins (no interval) About the Young Vic
Marco Emun Elliott We produce classics, new plays, forgotten works, musicals and Catherine Phoebe Fox opera. Our seasons of shows, directed by some of the world’s Alfieri M ichael Gould leading directors alongside the brightest of the next generation, Louis Richard Hansell make us one of the UK’s most innovative theatre companies. We Officer Pádraig Lynch Rodolpho Luke Norris produce 12 shows a year in our three theatres and tour widely. Eddie Mark Strong With deep roots in our neighbourhood, we co-produce with Beatrice Nicola Walker leading theatres all over the world. A Streetcar Named Desire Direction Ivo van Hove Recent productions include: directed Design & Light Jan Versweyveld by Benedict Andrews, Kander and Ebb’s The Scottsboro Boys Costumes An D’huys directed by Susan Stroman, A Doll’s House directed by Carrie Sound Tom Gibbons Cracknell, A Season in the Congo directed by Joe Wright, Dramaturg Bart Van Den Eynde Happy Days directed by Natalie Abrahami and The Valley of UK Casting Julia Horan US Casting Jim Carnahan CSA Astonishment directed by Peter Brook. Associate Director Jeff James Artistic Director DAVID LAN Associate Designer James Turner Associate Lighting Designer Nicki Brown Executive Director LUCY WOOLLATT Associate Sound Designer Alex Twiselton ‘The best theatre in London’ Daily Telegraph Company Stage Manager Alex Constantin Deputy Stage Manager Ruthie Philip-Smith It’s a big world in here youngvic.org Assistant Stage Manager Georgia Pavelková/ Rachel Williams /youngvictheatre @youngvictheatre Costume Supervisor Catherine Kodicek Associate Production Manager Lloyd Thomas Coming next Sound Operator Gareth Tucker Automation Operator David Leigh-Pemberton The Hard Problem Wardrobe Manager Caroline Mccall a new play by Tom Stoppard Wardrobe Technicians Serica Kavaz/Traipsy Drake General Management Young Vic In cinemas from April 16
Understudy Beatrice Samantha Coughlan Understudy Marco/Rodolpho/ ‘100 minutes of Officer/Louis Cary Crankson brilliant brainache’ Understudy Catherine Samantha Dakin Daily Mail
Understudy Alfieri Rich ard Hansell Original photo © Corbis Understudy Eddie Pádraig Lynch Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw First performance at the Young Vic: 4 April 2014 First performance at Wyndham’s Theatre: 10 February 2015 In cinemas from May 14
Copyright agent: ICM Partners, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY10019 ‘Out of this world. Ralph Fiennes Please make sure all phones are switched off during the performance flies high as Bernard Shaw’s Superman’ Metro Photography by Juergen Teller Photography by Juergen
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The Hard Problem a new play by Tom Stoppard
In cinemas from April 16
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia) returns to the National Theatre with his highly anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, One Man, Two Guvnors). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is
Original photo © Corbis prepared to pray for one. Photography by Juergen Teller Photography by Juergen Photography by Sorted Shona Heath Photography: Tim Gutt; Art direction:
Man and Superman Everyman Hamlet by Bernard Shaw a new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy by William Shakespeare produced by Sonia Friedman Productions In cinemas from May 14 In cinemas from July 16 In cinemas from October 15 Academy Award®-nominee Ralph Fiennes BAFTA winner and Academy Award®-nominee (The English Patient, Schindler’s List) plays Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) takes the title Academy Award®-nominee Benedict Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention role in this dynamic new production of one of Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. English drama’s oldest plays, directed by the Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) National Theatre’s new Director, Rufus Norris takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery (Broken, London Road). philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks tragedy, directed by Lyndsey Turner. fundamental questions about how Everyman is successful, popular and riding As a country arms itself for war, a family tears we live. high when Death comes calling. He is forced itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death to abandon the life he has built and embark on but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages a frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to against the impossibility of his predicament, speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, threatening both his sanity and the security of and time is running out. the state. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, it now explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and movement by Javier De Frutos.
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