Young Vic winter/spring 2010 season

Young Vic winter/spring 2010 season

Productions announced for The Young Vic Theatre Winter/Spring season...

Three productions in the Main House...

19 Jan to 6 Feb 2010
I AM YUSEF AND THIS IS MY BROTHER by Amir Nizar Zuabi. Directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi, designed by Jon Bausor, lighting by Colin Grenfell. A Young Vic / Shiber-Hur production. January 1948. Palestine. The British Mandate is ending. The UN is voting on who will control what part of the land...Ali is in love with Nada - but he is in despair. Her father won't let them marry because his brother Yusuf is 'odd' with his own eccentric, child-like point of view. War begins. As the villagers are scattered and become refugees, the secret that's kept Ali and Nada apart is revealed.

25 Feb to 10 April 2010
SWEET NOTHINGS, by Arthur Schnitzler, in a new version by David Harrower. Directed by Luc Bondy, designed by Karl-Ernst Herrmann. Young Vic/Wiener Festwochen and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen co-production. A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. At a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room.

24 April to 8 May 2010
ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS an opera by WH Auden and Chester Kallman, Composed by Hans Werner Henze. Directed by Fiona Shaw, designed by Tom Pye. ENO/Young Vic co-production. A expose of the creative ego and its insatiable need to feed off all around it.

In the Maria Studio...

28 Jan to 13 March 2010 (Daytimes)
THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss, adapted for the stage by Katie Mitchell. (A transfer from the National Theatre). Aimed at an audience of 3 to 6-year-olds. From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that the cat in the hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he is certainly fun to play with. And he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home...?