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Dateline: 1st February, 2011

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New at the Young Vic

The Young Vic has announced its productions for 2011 into 2012.

Already announced and running from 27th January to 5th March is the return of Tanya Ronder's adaptation of DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little, followed by Fevered Sleep's And the Rain Falls Down (24th February to 12th March), the ENO/Young Vic co-production of Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses (24th March to 9th April) and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, production of Mark O'Rowe's Terminus (30th March to 16th April).

The productions are now joined by:

I Am the Wind
By Jon Fosse in an English version by Simon Stephens
A Young Vic/ Théâtre de la Ville-Paris co-production co-commissioned by Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), les Nuits de Fourvière/ Département du Rhône, Festival Grec 2011 - Barcelona and Festival d'Avignon
26th April to 21st May
Two lifelong travelling companions are bound together on a journey across a vast ocean. As night falls, they drink together, cook for one another and test each other in ways neither could have thought possible. A light, comic, deeply moving exploration of the never ending struggle to be human.

Government Inspector
By Nikolai Gogol, in a new version by David Harrower
3rd June to 9th July
Featuring The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt, Smack the Pony's Doon Mackichan and Kyle Soller (The Glass Menagerie).

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By Martin McDonagh
20th July to 3rd September
A revival of the 2010 production starring Rosaleen Linehan as Mag, with Derbhle Crotty joining her as daughter Maureen.

Street Scene
Music by Kurt Weill, book by Elmer Rice, lyrics by Langston Hughes
The Opera Group/Young Vic co-production originally produced with Watford Palace Theatre
15th September to 1st October 2011
A revival of the 2008 Evening Standard Best Musical award-winning production for fourteen performances only.

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
28th October 2011 - 21st January 2012
Starring Michael Sheen and directed by Ian Rickson

Bingo
By Edward Bond
Young Vic/Chichester Festival Theatre co-production
16th February - 31st March 2012
Starring Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare

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©Peter Lathan 2011