The Old Vic Theatre Bicentenary Season
The Old Vic celebrates 200 years of theatre with a bumper season of world premieres spanning YA literature, Suffragette hiphop & classic cinema
Jack Thorne updates A Christmas Carol
Jack Thorne, the playwright with the magic touch, re-works Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol for a new Old Vic production. With stage hits spanning bold tragedy (Woyzeck, Old Vic, 2016), blockbuster wizards (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre,2016) and supernatural thrillers (Let the Right One In, Hightide and tour, 2013), Thorne is likely to do something a little more innovative than the average version of the morality ghost story.
Alan Ayckbourn's The Divide
Alan Ayckbourn's ambitious six-hour play is a collaboration between The Old Vic and Edinburgh International Festival. It promises a dystopian 'narrative for voices' in two parts. But be warned, the reviews from the Edinburgh premiere were pretty damning...
Read more ...Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander is adapted for the stage
It's no exaggeration to call Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander a 'masterpiece'. It sits proudly on all lists of 'best films of the century', has four Oscars and averages a critical score of 100 on pretty much all film rating sites. Now it comes to The Old Vic in a new stage adaptation.
Read more ...Joe Penhall's Mood Music
The drama and psychodrama of making music is explored on stage in a new play by Sunny Afternoon and Blue/Orange playwright Joe Penhall.
Read more ...Patrick Ness's novel A Monster Calls is re-imagined for the stage
Director Sally Cookson leads a new stage adaptation of Patrick Ness' searing novel about a teenager, a monster and the mourning process.
Read more ...Sylvia, ZooNation, Old Vic Theatre
The life of the suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst gets the unlikely R&B treatment. Queen of British hip hop choreographers, Kate Prince, leads this modern musical take on the true story.