Kursk, Been So Long And Sus Announced For Young Vic Line-up In June And July

A Young Vic and Fuel co-production Sound&Fury's Kursk In collaboration with Bryony Lavery, Commissioned by The Junction, Cambridge 

The Maria 3 - 27 June

A powerful immersive theatrical experience inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000. A submarine is on patrol in the arctic. The crew sleep, eat, drill, long for word from home, and silently shadow their target. Their lives, at once extraordinary and mundane, are shattered by a global crisis from which uniquely personal stories emerge.

Pioneering theatre company Sound&Fury (The Watery Part of the World / Ether Frolics ) join playwright Bryony Lavery (Frozen/Stockholm) to imagine the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the cold war.
Tickets

£17.50 (Previews £10) Call 020 7922 2922 or visit www.youngvic.org for more information.

Been So Long

A Young Vic/ETT co-production

Main House 11 June - 14 July

Romance, rage, revenge and rare groove...
Che Walker and Arthur Darvill's neon-soaked musical comedy rocks the Young Vic's Main House.

Yvonne and Simone are cruising for action. Raymond stole Gil's girl and now Gil wants to slice him up, while Barney is just after a quiet life. When all five collide, in a seedy London bar, their desires ignite in a guttural blast of cusses, laughs and unexpected romance. Love looks set to finally conquer the two people who swore they could live without it. But how will they know it's for real?

Smarten yourself up, brush yourself down and experience the soul/funk powerhouse of Been So Long.

Tickets

£22.50 (Previews £15) A limited number of tickets are available at discount. Early booking is advised. Call 020 7922 2922 or visit www.youngvic.org for more information.

Also in June...

Sus
Young Vic Jerwood Award 2008

The Clare 15 - 20 June

The 'sus' laws made it legal for Police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion.

It's election night 1979. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London Police station exchange bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up at his local pub. He is incensed believing that he'll just be fodder for a new government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles.
Written in the early days of Thatcherism, Sus is a poweful cry against institutional racism. Keefe pulls no punches in his depiction of a corrupt system that fails the very people it should protect. Barrie Keefe's highly praised work includes the cult classic film The Long Good Friday as well as the much performed plays Gotcha, Gimmie Shelter and Barbarians.

Directed by Gbolahan Obisesan - recipient of 2008 Jerwood Directors award.

Tickets
All tickets are £7.50. No discounts are available

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