Young Vic Theatre Presents KURSK, 3/26-4/17

Young Vic/Fuel presents Sound & Fury's Kursk in collaboration with Bryony Lavery commissioned by The Junction Cambridge. Runs at The Maria 26 March - 17 April

After a triumphant run at the Young Vic and in Edinburgh in 2009, Kursk returns for a limited season.

Nominated for a What's On Stage Award for Best Off West End Production and an Evening Standard Award for Best Design in 2009, Kursk is a powerfully immersive theatrical experience inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000.

Pioneering theatre company Sound&Fury (The Watery Part of the World, Ether Frolics, War Music) and playwright Bryony Lavery (Frozen, Stockholm) recreate the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the Cold War.

In consultation with former submariners and naval psychologists, Sound&Fury have created an environment of submarine warfare, transporting the audience to a confined underwater world of command and control, secrecy and codes, fear and camaraderie.

The cast includes Ian Ashpitel, Keir Charles, Tom Espiner, Laurence Mitchell and Jonah Russell.

Bryony Lavery's plays include Frozen (winner of the TMA Best New Play Award and nominated for 4 Tonys), Stockholm (winner of the 2008 Whiting Award) and the radio play No Joan Of Arc (nominated for a Sony Award). Her recent projects include A Christmas Carol (Birmingham Rep), Wicked Lady (New Vic) and a revival of her play The Origin of the Species (Arcola).

Besides co-directing work with Sound&Fury, Mark Espiner has worked on Theatre Projects with David Glass, Tom Morris (Disembodied) and Mark Anstee (Names of the Dead). He also works as a freelance journalist for various publications including The Guardian and Financial Times.

Dan Jones wrote the score for Academy Award-nominated feature film Shadow of the Vampire and won the Ivor Novello Award Best Film Score for Max. His music and sound design credits include A Prayer for My Daughter (YV), Tim Crouch's multi-award-winning England (world tour) and Zinnie Harris' Fall (RSC).

Tom Espiner's acting credits include Peggy For You (Hampstead & West End), The Firework-Maker's Daughter (Told by an Idiot), Twelfth Night, The Winters Tale & Macbeth (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and Barbican Pit), Anything Goes (NT) and Bryony Lavery's Yikes! (Unicorn).

Fuel is a producing organisation which works in partnership with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all ages.

Kursk will tour to Bristol, Cambridge, Newcastle, Coventry and Glasgow this spring.

Kursk is co-directed by Mark Espiner and Dan Jones, designed by Jon Bausor, with sound by Dan Jones, and light by Hansjörg Schmidt.