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The Old Vic Theatre Bicentenary Season

By Lucy Brooks on 2/11/2017

'To honour The Old Vic’s 200th birthday we are celebrating it partly as a treasured historic icon but mostly as an adventurous, youthful, hub of creativity with a vibrant future ahead of it,' said artistic director Matthew Warchus.
The Bicentenary Season celebrates innovation and diversity. Six new productions span young adult literature, classic cinema and Suffragette-themed hiphop.

Public booking for the Bicentenary Season opens on Wednesday 15 November 2017.

Rhys Ifans: A Christmas Carol, Old Vic Theatre London. Photo by Helen Maybanks

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.

WHEN

18 Nov 2017 – 20 Jan 2018, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

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...

WHEN

30 Jan 2018 – 10 Feb 2018, Performances at 1:30pm and 7:30pm

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

From screen to stage: Fanny and Alexander, Old Vic Theatre

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.

WHEN

21 Feb 2018 – 14 Apr 2018, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

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.

WHEN

21 Apr 2018 – 30 Jun 2018, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

From page to stage: A Monster Calls, Old Vic Theatre

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.

WHEN

07 Jul 2018 – 25 Aug 2018, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

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.

WHEN

01 Sep 2018 – 22 Sep 2018, 19:30 Wed & Sat mats 14:30 Dur. TBC

WHERE

The Old Vic
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB

The Old Vic Theatre Bicentenary Season

Jack Thorne updates A Christmas Carol

Alan Ayckbourn's The Divide

Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander is adapted for the stage

Joe Penhall's Mood Music

Patrick Ness's novel A Monster Calls is re-imagined for the stage

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