26 January - 18 February 2012
The Changeling
By Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins
Beautiful Beatrice-Joanna is in love - so she hires the repellent
De Flores to kill the man her father wants her to marry. But once
the deed’s done Beatrice discovers it’s not money or jewels
that De Flores claims as his reward, but something far more precious.
16 February - 31 March 2012
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
By Edward Bond
A Young Vic/Chichester Festival Theatre co-production
Starring Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare
The glory years of London behind him, William Shakespeare finds himself
in an overwhelming moral dilemma. Like his greatest creation King
Lear, he has to decide: what shall he do with his money and his power?
6th - 24th March
Going Dark
Sound&Fury
How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores
of the universe to a far away galaxy? As a narrator in a planetarium,
it’s Max’s job to ask the cosmic questions. But in a society
polluting the night sky with light and happier to explore the stars
in a waxworks museum, he feels increasingly out of place. When his
life is suddenly turned upside down, Max discovers that understanding
the universe requires a different kind of vision.
13 April - 13 May 2012
Wild Swans
By Jung Chang,adapted by Alexandra Wood
Directed by Sacha Wares
A Young Vic/American Repertory Theater/Actors Touring Company co-production
Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, Wild Swans takes
us on a journey from the early days of Communist hope and struggle,
through the chaos and confusion of Mao's Cultural Revolution to the
birth of a superpower.
21 May - 16 June 2012
The Suit
A musical play by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne,
after the original story by Can Themba, adapted for the stage by Barney
Simon and Mothobi Mutloatse
A CICT/ Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord production
A Young Vic/ Napoli Festival/ Les Théâtres de la Ville
du Luxembourg/ Théâtre de la Place - Liège co-production
In the dusty heat of a 1950s South African township, a young worker
returns home to find his wife in bed with her lover. The lover escapes,
leaving behind his suit. The only revenge the husband takes is to
instruct his wife to treat the suit as an honoured guest. But how
long can she endure this cruel and pitiless sentence.
