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WRITTEN BY<br />
BEN OKRI<br />
CHANGING<br />
DESTINY<br />
CAST<br />
Character Joan Iyiola<br />
Character Ashley Zhangazha<br />
Across the performance run, cast members Joan Iyiola and Ashley Zhangazha<br />
will share the role of Sinuhe, with a game played on stage at the start of each<br />
performance dictating who will play the role in that show.
CREATIVE TEAM<br />
Writer<br />
Ben Okri<br />
Director<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah<br />
Set and Costume Designer<br />
Sir David Adjaye<br />
and Adjaye Associates<br />
Lighting Designer<br />
Jackie Shemesh<br />
Sound Designer<br />
and Musical Director<br />
XANA<br />
Projection Designer<br />
Duncan McLean<br />
Composer<br />
Tunde Jegede<br />
Movement Director<br />
Rachael Nanyonjo<br />
Voice and Dialect Coach<br />
Hazel Holder<br />
Fight Director<br />
Yarit Dor<br />
Jerwood Assistant<br />
Director<br />
Khadifa Wong<br />
Boris Karloff Trainee<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Xanthus<br />
Mime Consultant<br />
Marcello Magni<br />
Casting support<br />
Charlotte Sutton CDG<br />
Additional film and voice<br />
Rakie Ayola<br />
Ebe Bambgoye<br />
Doña Croll<br />
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith<br />
Company Stage Manager<br />
Debra Tidd<br />
Deputy Stage Manager<br />
Mary O’Hanlon<br />
Assistant Stage Manager<br />
Stefani Zivanic<br />
Costume Supervisor<br />
Sarah Hamza<br />
LX <strong>Programme</strong>r<br />
Jason Addison<br />
LX <strong>Programme</strong>r and<br />
Lighting Operator<br />
Saul Richardson<br />
Sound Operator<br />
Xander Smith<br />
Wardrobe Manager<br />
Maddie Bevan<br />
Stage Operator<br />
Glyn Dodd<br />
Video <strong>Programme</strong>r<br />
and System Engineer<br />
Dan Trenchard<br />
Hair for Joan Iyiola<br />
styled by<br />
Purely Natural Salon<br />
Make Up for filming<br />
Sam Lascelle<br />
Video <strong>Programme</strong>r<br />
Jack Jewell<br />
Animators<br />
Stanley Orwin-Fraser<br />
Bradley Purnell<br />
Video Equipment Supplier<br />
Stage Sound Services<br />
Film Equipment Supplier<br />
Kagey Lightin<br />
With thanks to: Holly Aston, Duncan Wilson, Ed Cooper, Dan Bond, Sub Pac Company and Steve Snooks, Edith<br />
Nazziwa, Gertrude Najjombwe, Malwah Family, Imogen Sarre, Roman Bednarz, Enric Ortuno, Tom Ilube, Jo Braun,<br />
Primo Productions, Claw Collective, Luke Shires, Becky Pepper, TEA Creatives, LLoyd Stringer, Sarah Stratton<br />
Khadifa Wong is supported by the Jerwood Assistant Director Program at the Young Vic.<br />
Xanthus is supported by the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director Program at the Young Vic.<br />
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WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?<br />
by Ben Okri<br />
This play, <strong>Changing</strong> <strong>Destiny</strong>, takes its<br />
life from a 4000-year-old poem from<br />
ancient Egypt. The poem is called Sinuhe.<br />
There are some who see the poem as the<br />
unknown precursor of many legends that<br />
are part of the world’s narrative tradition.<br />
But the poem, composed during the middle<br />
kingdom, a period considered the height<br />
of ancient Egyptian literary culture, and<br />
unread for three and a half millennia,<br />
retains an uncanny ability to speak to<br />
our times. It is this quality that makes it<br />
fascinating.<br />
Anyone who has an abiding interest in ancient<br />
Egypt would see it as part of the history of African<br />
civilisations. There seems to have been concerted<br />
attempts to separate ancient Egypt from Africa. Here<br />
we have a civilisation conceived on an exalted plane,<br />
but whose most famous literary text is about identity,<br />
immigration, social disorder, the mystery of power,<br />
changing fortunes, and the inexplicability of the deep<br />
motives of our actions. In a strange way, Sinuhe<br />
foreshadows Hamlet. In its meditation on the nature<br />
of exile and homecoming, it foreshadows The Odyssey.<br />
A casual encounter with Kwame Kwei-Armah at an<br />
event about Mandela led to a conversation about<br />
Sinuhe. The discovery of a mutual interest in this<br />
poem led to the realisation that there was something<br />
intrinsically dramatic about the poem, and that it<br />
would make a striking play that resonates powerfully<br />
with our times.<br />
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The writing was begun in the spring of 2019; other drafts<br />
were written during the long lockdown. What began as a play<br />
about power, the ancient world, and immigration, became<br />
focussed on the curious destiny of Sinuhe. The play absorbed,<br />
in the indirect way these things do, many of the underlying<br />
currents of our times. It opens with conspirators plotting to<br />
assassinate a toxic leader, then it delves into the condition<br />
of exile and immigration. But at its heart is something that<br />
has fascinated us since the earliest days of civilisation: the<br />
mystery of what makes us human. What are our constituent<br />
parts, what are we made of, what is it that is most authentic<br />
about us, and what is it in us that we sacrifice on the<br />
relentless path of survival and achievement?<br />
Like all ancient cultures, the ancient Egyptians believed<br />
that human beings are composed of two selves, which they<br />
roughly designated the BA and the KA. The metaphysics<br />
of these terms are too complex to go into here, but they<br />
are a fundamental aspect of what we are. In Hinduism, in<br />
Christianity, in most African traditions, these aspects that<br />
make up human beings have their clear designation. The<br />
ancient Greeks, according to Plato, saw that we are body,<br />
pnumena, and spirit. The Chinese use the same word Chi<br />
to designate a mysterious force in us that the Igbos use to<br />
refer to one’s personal spirit. This concept runs through<br />
most cultures. It is worth remembering that the scribe in<br />
whose tomb the papyrus containing Sinuhe was found also<br />
transcribed a poem called ‘A Man’s Dialogue with his Soul.’<br />
In <strong>Changing</strong> <strong>Destiny</strong> there is the idea that one can sin<br />
against one’s spirit, that one can perform acts that separate<br />
one from one’s essential, or authentic, self. In our time we<br />
are just as haunted by the idea of authenticity. We celebrate<br />
our heroes and heroines to the degree that they live out their<br />
authentic choices.<br />
In the original poem, there is an enigma as profound and<br />
perhaps more baffling than the enigma at the heart of Hamlet<br />
or Oedipus Rex. With Hamlet it is the conundrum of the ghost<br />
and its effect on Hamlet’s constant delays in exacting revenge<br />
for the murder of his father. With Oedipus Rex it is the<br />
enigma of the immutability of destiny itself. With Sinuhe,<br />
it is the question of a mysterious flight and an assumed<br />
guilt, and the impact this has on the rest of his life. The<br />
assumption of guilt when one has not done the thing for<br />
which one feels guilty is a very modern phenomenon. Kafka<br />
is perhaps its greatest modern exponent. Sinuhe anticipates<br />
Kafka by nearly four thousand years.<br />
Such a work hints at something universal about the human<br />
condition. Since the dawn of time, we have known what it is<br />
like to have to find a way to live and thrive under a sky different<br />
from the one under which we were born. We have known what<br />
it is like to make existential decisions that alter, forever, the<br />
tone and nature of our lives. The eternal questions pursue us<br />
whether we are at home or are exiles. We all feel in our blood<br />
an attachment to our lands. We all feel that something is lost in<br />
us when we are unduly severed from it.<br />
Literature makes us aware of the invisible umbilical cords<br />
that connect us to the universe, to the land, and to our<br />
communities. In both the ancient and the modern world the<br />
nature of home is complex and undergoes constant mutation.<br />
Historical events alter all things. A single war can shift the<br />
configuration of what we call home. Today you are free, but<br />
tomorrow finds you a refugee.<br />
The fugitive nature of human certainties gives us cause to<br />
wonder. The urge to alter one’s destiny, in a world over which<br />
one has little control, is as old as humanity itself. <strong>Changing</strong><br />
<strong>Destiny</strong>, taking the poem as its starting point, explores these<br />
themes. But it leaps off into its own discoveries.<br />
A silent mantra runs through this production. It emerged in the<br />
close collaboration with Kwame Kwei-Armah and the actors.<br />
Within the lightness of the lines are sublimated worlds.<br />
All is real, yet all is dream. A person who fled for reasons that<br />
they do not know, arrives at somewhere they did not expect,<br />
where the synthesis which is at the core of a great civilisation is<br />
at the root of a new genesis.<br />
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4 Photographer: Marc Brenner
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THE COMPANY<br />
JOAN IYIOLA<br />
CHARACTER<br />
ASHLEY ZHANGAZHA<br />
CHARACTER<br />
Previous Young Vic: Tree, A Season In The Congo.<br />
Other theatre includes: The Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream, The White Devil, The Arden of Favesham, The Roaring Girl,<br />
The Life of Galileo, Boris Godunov, The Orphan of Zhao (RSC); Three<br />
Guineas, Boudica (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Convert, Eclipsed, The<br />
Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco (Gate Theatre), They Drink it in the<br />
Congo (Almeida), Omeros (Shakespeare’s Globe & St Lucia Tour).<br />
Television includes: Too Close (ITV), Enterprice S1 &2 (BBC/<br />
Netflix), Black Earth Rising (BBC/Netflix), New Blood (BBC/Netflix),<br />
Yonderland (Sky).<br />
Film includes: Twice as Good, DỌLÁPÒ . IS FINE, A Fortress Built By<br />
Nature, Don’t Come Here, Nyx, Words, Show Dogs, Denial.<br />
Joan is co-founder of The Mono Box, a non-profit arts organisation that<br />
supports and nurtures the development of emerging and professional<br />
talent with workshops and courses, digital resources and new writing<br />
opportunities most notably, RESET THE STAGE and PLAYSTART.<br />
Joan is also co-founder of Apatan Productions, under which she cowrote,<br />
produced and acted in DỌLÁPÒ . IS FINE (HBO/Netflix), and<br />
was the awarded HBO Short Film Award for 2020. Joan is part of<br />
BFI Network x BAFTA’s Crew for 2021, and is an Associate Artist at<br />
Donmar Warehouse.<br />
Previous Young Vic: Ah, Wilderness!<br />
Other theatre includes: Tina The Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Death<br />
of a Salesman, Guys & Dolls, Hamlet (Royal Exchange); Pericles<br />
(National Theatre); The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre);<br />
Terror (Lyric Hammersmith); The Lottery of Love (Orange Tree<br />
Theatre); Human Animals, Belong, Truth and Reconciliation (Royal<br />
Court); A Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Crucible/Eclipse Theatre<br />
Company); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (The Gate); Henry V<br />
(Michael Grandage Company); Fences (Duchess Theatre/Theatre Royal<br />
Bath); Macbeth (Sheffield Theatres (Crucible)); Richard II, King Lear<br />
(Donmar); Danton’s Death (National Theatre).<br />
Television includes: Darkness Rising (Channel 4), Manhunt (ITV/<br />
Buffalo Pictures), Victoria II (Mammoth Screen), Doctors (BBC),<br />
Humans (Channel 4), Ordinary Lies, Lenny Goes To Town (BBC),<br />
Axon (BBC/Illumina Digital).<br />
Radio includes: Schreber, Lorenzaccio (BBC Radio 3), Rasselas, Prince<br />
of Abyssinia (BBC Radio 4).<br />
Film includes: Parlour Games (Short).<br />
Ashley won the UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical<br />
for Guys and Dolls at the Royal Exchange, and the Ian Charleson Award<br />
for Macbeth at the Sheffield Crucible. He trained at the Guildhall<br />
School of Music and Drama.<br />
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THROUGH THE LENS<br />
We commissioned photography by artist,<br />
photographer and former Young Vic Young<br />
Associate Jamel Duane Alatise<br />
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BEN OKRI<br />
WRITER<br />
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, and<br />
playwright. His novel, The Famished<br />
Road, won the Booker Prize in 1991.<br />
His works have been translated into<br />
27 languages. He wrote a much<br />
acclaimed adaptation of Camus’s The<br />
Outsider for the Coronet in London<br />
and his play Madame Sosostris was<br />
performed to full houses at the Pullof<br />
Theatres in Lausanne, Switzerland.<br />
His latest novel is The Freedom Artist<br />
and his latest volume of stories is<br />
Prayer for the Living, both published<br />
in 2019. A new collection of his poems<br />
A Fire in my Head was published in<br />
January 2021.<br />
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is Artistic<br />
Director of the Young Vic theatre. He<br />
was Artistic Director of Baltimore<br />
Centerstage (2011-18) and Artistic<br />
Director of the Festival of Black Arts<br />
and Culture, Senegal (2010), where<br />
he wrote and directed the opening<br />
ceremony at Senghor stadium. As<br />
a playwright, Kwame was the first<br />
African Caribbean to have a play<br />
produced in London’s West End<br />
(Elmina’s Kitchen). His triptych of<br />
plays was produced at the National<br />
Theatre, where he later created<br />
the online resource The Black Play<br />
Archive. Kwame was Chancellor of the<br />
University of the Arts, London (2010-<br />
2015), is Patron of Ballet Black, and<br />
The Black Cultural Archives, Chair<br />
of Warwick Arts Centre Advisory<br />
Board and Fellow of Lady Margaret<br />
Hall, Oxford University. Kwame was<br />
awarded an OBE for Services to Drama<br />
in 2011, and in 2020 listed as one of<br />
100 Great Black Britons.<br />
SIR DAVID ADJAYE<br />
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN<br />
Architecture Projects: Smithsonian<br />
National Museum of African American<br />
History & Culture (Washington DC),<br />
Abrahamic Family House (Abu Dhabi,<br />
UAE), Ruby City (San Antonio, Texas),<br />
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion<br />
(London, UK), Sugar Hill Mixed-Use<br />
Development (Harlem, New York),<br />
Moscow School of Management<br />
SKOLKOVO (Moscow, Russia), Aishti<br />
Foundation (Beirut, Lebanon), George<br />
Street Plaza Building (Sydney,<br />
Australia), Idea Stores (London, UK),<br />
National Cathedral of Ghana (Accra,<br />
Ghana), Edo Museum of West African<br />
Art (Benin, Nigeria), Princeton<br />
University Art Museum (Princeton,<br />
New Jersey).<br />
Exhibitions and Installations:<br />
Asaase, Social Works (Gagosian),<br />
Sankofa Pavilion: Is this Tomorrow?<br />
(Whitechapel Gallery), Ghana<br />
Freedom Pavilion (58th Venice Art<br />
Biennale), Making Memory (Design<br />
Museum), Magdalene Odundo: The<br />
Journey of Things (Sainsbury Centre<br />
for Visual Arts).<br />
Awards: RIBA Gold Medal (2021),<br />
World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual<br />
Crystal Award (2021), Isamu Noguchi<br />
Award (2020), Louis Kahn Memorial<br />
Award (2018), Ghana Legacy Honors<br />
Impact in Architecture (2017).<br />
JACKIE SHEMESH<br />
LIGHTING DESIGNER<br />
Previous Young Vic: In the Penal<br />
Colony, Man, Oh my Sweet Land.<br />
Other theatre includes: Death of<br />
England, Hansard, Death of England:<br />
Delroy (National Theatre); Misty, The<br />
Beloved, Islands (Bush Theatre); What<br />
if Women Ruled the World, Ceremony<br />
(MIF); Vanya, Mary Stuart (Almeida);<br />
The Seagull (Jamie Lloyd Company);<br />
The Return of Danton (Collective<br />
Ma’louba).<br />
Dance includes: Heavy Handed we<br />
Crush the Moment (Jamila Johnson-<br />
Small); Run Mary Run (Sadler’s<br />
Wells); Goat (Rambert); The<br />
Murmuring, Young Men (BalletBoyz);<br />
Beheld, Hot Mess, Let’s Talk About<br />
Dis (Candoco Danc); Girl A (Scottish<br />
Dance Theatre); Lunatic (NDC Wales).<br />
Other collaborations include:<br />
Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Grange<br />
Opera); Recital for Cathy, From<br />
Canyons to Stars (Hamburg Symphony<br />
Orchestra); TUTBU TV, JRMIP<br />
(Hebbel Berlin;) Sante (LSO).<br />
jackieshemesh.com<br />
XANA<br />
SOUND DESIGNER AND<br />
MUSICAL DIRECTOR<br />
Previous Young Vic: TWENTY,<br />
TWENTY, Fairview, Ivan and the<br />
Dogs.<br />
Other theatre includes:<br />
The Body Remembers (Fuel<br />
Theatre); Strange Fruit (Bush<br />
Theatre); Blood Knot (Orange<br />
Tree Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney<br />
Showroom).<br />
Installation includes: Joy Inside<br />
Our Tears (Harold Offeh, Wellcome<br />
Collection).<br />
Film includes: A Reunion of<br />
Hands (Sonny Nwachukwu, dir. Myah<br />
Jeffers Brownton Abbey), Reset the<br />
Stage (Mono Box Productions), House<br />
Made of Tin (Raisa Kabir), Hope<br />
and Her Two Daughters (dir. Tobore<br />
Dafiaga), A Response to your message<br />
(Somalia Seaton).<br />
DUNCAN MCLEAN<br />
PROJECTION DESIGNER<br />
Previous Young Vic: Tree (Mif/<br />
Young Vic) and The Jungle.<br />
West End theatre includes: Magic<br />
Goes Wrong (Vaudeville); Labour Of<br />
Love (Noël Coward); Big Fish (The<br />
Other Palace); Committee, Saint Joan,<br />
Limehouse, One Night In Miami...,<br />
Privacy, City Of Angels and Phyllida<br />
Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy, Julius<br />
Caesar, Henry VI and The Tempest<br />
(Donmar Warehouse);All My Sons, The<br />
Hairy Ape, A Flea in Her Ear, The<br />
Tempest, The Real Thing, The Norman<br />
Conquests and All About My Mother<br />
(Old Vic); Shrek The Musical (Theatre<br />
Royal Drury Lane/UK Tour); Derren<br />
Brown – Infamous (Palace/UK Tour);<br />
All New People (Duke Of York’s/UK<br />
Tour);Frost/Nixon (Gielgud).<br />
New York theatre includes: Matthew<br />
Bourne’s The Red Shoes and Swan<br />
Lake (City Center); Privacy (Public<br />
Theater); The Jungle and The Tempest<br />
(St Ann’s Warehouse); Let It Be (St<br />
James).<br />
International theatre includes:<br />
Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany);<br />
Chess (Japan); Bodyguard The Musical<br />
(Australia/North America/Europe/<br />
China/Korea); Evita (International<br />
Tour); Ghost The Musical (Germany).<br />
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TUNDE JEGEDE<br />
COMPOSER<br />
Theatre includes: Who Am I?; Emidy:<br />
He Who Dared To Dream; The Griot’s<br />
Tale; African Messiah; Tell Them<br />
That I Am Young And Beautiful;<br />
Red Fortress; Baby Balloon; Cry of<br />
Innocence; The Prophet; Othello.<br />
Television includes: African<br />
Apocalypse; Winged Bull in the<br />
Elephant Case; Hopes on the Horizon;<br />
Africa I Remember.<br />
Film includes: African Apocalypse;<br />
Khartoum Offside; In Search of<br />
Voodoo: Roots to Heaven; 93 Days;<br />
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation;<br />
Waking At Dawn; Agadez, The Music<br />
and the Rebellion; The First Grader;<br />
Ara’s Sojourn; The Nanny Diaries; Our<br />
Story, Our Voice; To The Unknown;<br />
Life & Lyrics; The Idea; 500 Years<br />
Later; Fantôme Afrique; Tunde; Franz<br />
Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask.<br />
www.tundejegede.org<br />
RACHAEL NANYONJO<br />
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR<br />
Previous Young Vic: In a Word,<br />
American Dream, The Jumper Factory<br />
(Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic).<br />
Other theatre includes: Death of a<br />
Black Man (Hampstead Theatre);<br />
Cinderella (Nottingham Playhouse);<br />
Spine (20 Stories High); Great<br />
Expectations (National Youth Theatre<br />
at Southwark Playhouse); Either<br />
(Hampstead); Two Trains Running<br />
(ETT – Royal & Derngate);Does My<br />
Bomb Look Big In This (Soho Theatre,<br />
Tara Arts); Babylon Beyond Borders<br />
(The Bush Theatre); Macbeth (Orange<br />
Tree); Misty (Trafalgar Studios)<br />
Olivier Award Nominated; Sleeping<br />
Beauty (Theatre Royal Stratford<br />
East) Nominated For The Black<br />
British Theatre Best Choreographer<br />
Award; After It Rains (National Youth<br />
Theatre); Shebeen (Nottingham<br />
Playhouse & Theatre Royal Stratford<br />
East); Bernstein’s Mass (Royal<br />
Festival Hall, Southbank Centre);<br />
Twilight (Gate Theatre); The Divide,<br />
Cover My Tracks (Old Vic).<br />
Television include: CBeebies:<br />
Christmas In Storyland (BBC, 2020).<br />
Film includes: The Statistical<br />
Probability of Love at First Sight<br />
(Ace Entertainment, 2021); Pirates<br />
(Hillbilly Films/ BBC/BFI, 2020).<br />
HAZEL HOLDER<br />
VOICE AND DIALECT COACH<br />
Previous Young Vic: Death of a<br />
Salesman, The Convert, Fairview, The<br />
Emperor, The Mountaintop, Cuttin’ It,<br />
The Sleeping Beauty.<br />
Other theatre includes: Uncle Vanya<br />
(Harold Pinter); Pass Over (Kiln);<br />
Death of England: Delroy, Death of<br />
England, Small Island, Nine Night,<br />
Barber Shop Chronicles, Pericles,<br />
Angels in America, Les Blancs<br />
and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom<br />
(National Theatre); Richard II (Sam<br />
Wannamaker Playhouse); Dreamgirls<br />
(Resident Director) (Savoy); Ear for<br />
Eye, Poet in Da Corner, Father Comes<br />
Home from the Wars (Royal Court).<br />
TV includes: The Power.<br />
Film includes: Small Axe; Silent<br />
Twins; Death on the Nile (Letitia<br />
Wright).<br />
YARIT DOR<br />
FIGHT DIRECTOR<br />
Previous Young Vic: Death of A<br />
Salesman (Young Vic & West End<br />
Transfer also credited as additional<br />
movement support and Intimacy<br />
Director), Wild East (also Movement<br />
Director).<br />
Other theatre includes: Richard<br />
II, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much<br />
Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s<br />
Globe); Miss Julie (Storyhouse),<br />
Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); Daddy<br />
(Almeida); Macbeth (Royal Exchange<br />
Manchester); Assata Taught Me (Gate<br />
Theatre); The Effect (Boulevard<br />
Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, As You<br />
Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />
(Shakespeare In The Square); Little<br />
Voice, Disgraced (Park Theatre);<br />
Titus Andronicus (Greenwich<br />
Theatre).<br />
Dance includes: Rooms (Rambert);<br />
Between A Self And An Other, Leah,<br />
2B, Sunday Morning (all Hagit Yakira<br />
Company)<br />
Television includes: Adult Material,<br />
Atlanta Season 3, Superhoe,<br />
Girlfriend Experience 3, The Wheel of<br />
Time, Spanish Princess 2, Becoming<br />
Elizabeth, Domina, White Lines,<br />
Starstruck.<br />
Film includes: The Colour Room, Born<br />
of Hope.<br />
KHADIFA WONG<br />
JERWOOD ASSISTANT<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Other theatre includes: HOW I<br />
LEARNED TO SWIM, I’M YOUR<br />
ROPE, La Gringa, Adventurous (Jermyn<br />
Street Theatre), BLACK WOMEN<br />
DATING WHITE MEN (Hollywood<br />
Fringe, The Drayton Arms).<br />
Film includes: Uprooted – The Journey<br />
of Jazz Dance.<br />
The Jerwood Assistant Director Program<br />
is made possible by<br />
XANTHUS<br />
BORIS KARLOFF TRAINEE<br />
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR<br />
Theatre includes: The Gin<br />
Game (Chiswick Playhouse); Love<br />
Always Wins (Uproot<br />
Productions); PYNEAPPLE (Paradise<br />
by Way of Kensal Green), So Long,<br />
Babe (CLF Arts Cafe); Care (Working<br />
Laboratory) The Bunker Theatre.<br />
Film includes: Posters (Mountview)<br />
Assisted on: A Moment’s Peace (The<br />
Hope Theatre).<br />
The Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director<br />
Program is made possible by the Boris Karloff<br />
Charitable Foundation.<br />
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45 SECOND SYNOPSIS<br />
10 Photographer: Marc Brenner
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backgrounds and forge deep connections in our<br />
neighbourhood, where we provide extensive free<br />
activities. For many years, the Young Vic has been<br />
synonymous with inclusivity, accessibility and<br />
creativity. We keep our prices low and give 10% of<br />
our tickets to young people, schools and neighbours<br />
irrespective of box office demand.<br />
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OUR PARTNERS NEAR AT HAND<br />
Each year we engage with over 15,000 local people –<br />
individuals and groups of all kinds including schools and<br />
colleges – by exploring theatre on and off stage. From<br />
time to time we invite our neighbours to appear on our<br />
stage alongside professionals.<br />
OUR PARTNERS FURTHER AWAY<br />
By co-producing with leading theatre, opera, dance,<br />
film and TV companies from London and around<br />
the world, we create shows neither partner could<br />
achieve alone.<br />
‘The most exciting theatre in Europe’ Cush Jumbo<br />
‘A theatre with a global outlook and an<br />
extraordinary record of nurturing talent’<br />
Financial Times<br />
‘The Young Vic is where theatre<br />
magic happens’ Time Out<br />
‘Cool, creative, edgy Young Vic’ iNews<br />
‘London’s most essential theatre’ The Guardian<br />
‘Young Vic is London’s most lovable theatre.<br />
The building welcomes; the programming dares.<br />
It offers danger in a safe place.’ The Observer<br />
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THE YOUNG VIC COMPANY<br />
Artistic Director<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah<br />
Executive Director<br />
Despina Tsatsas<br />
Associate Artistic Director<br />
Sue Emmas<br />
Genesis Fellow / Associate Director<br />
Jennifer Tang<br />
Creative Associate<br />
Teunkie Van Der Sluijs<br />
Lead Producer (maternity leave)<br />
Holly Aston<br />
Lead Producer (maternity cover)<br />
Nisha Modhwadia<br />
General Manager<br />
Robyn Keynes<br />
Young Vic Artistic Associates<br />
Glenn Davis<br />
Alfred Enoch<br />
Anna Fleischle<br />
Marcus Gardley<br />
Kate Hewitt<br />
Afua Hirsch<br />
Kirsty Housley<br />
Alex Basco Koch<br />
Doña Kroll<br />
Gregory Maqoma<br />
Prema Mehta<br />
Duncan McLean<br />
Chinonyerem Odimba<br />
Wendell Pierce<br />
Caitriona Shoobridge<br />
Charles Randolph-Wright<br />
Charlotte Sutton<br />
XANA<br />
Associate Companies<br />
Belarus Free Theatre<br />
Crying In The Wilderness Productions<br />
Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme<br />
Sour Lemons<br />
Administration<br />
Operations Director<br />
Rathi Kumar<br />
Digital Systems Manager<br />
Damilola Senbanjo<br />
Administrator<br />
(Producing Team)<br />
Lucy Steward<br />
Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director<br />
Olivia Nwabali<br />
Directors Program Administrator<br />
Tia Begum<br />
Channel 4 playwright<br />
Lulu Raczka<br />
Development<br />
Development Director<br />
Alex Tonetta<br />
Corporate Development Manager<br />
Elisha Owen<br />
Trusts and Foundations Manager<br />
Bernadette Witham<br />
Individual Giving Manager<br />
Cameron Henderson-Begg<br />
Finance<br />
Finance Director<br />
Ivor Stockdale<br />
Finance Manager<br />
Sophie Wells<br />
Finance Officer<br />
Janine Carter<br />
Finance Assistant<br />
Sarah Lloyd<br />
Front of House<br />
Head of Theatre Operations<br />
Bryan Lewis<br />
Interim Head of Theatre Operations<br />
Kimberley Thomas-Currie<br />
Front of House Manager<br />
Will Bowden<br />
Facilities Manager (Outgoing)<br />
George Mills<br />
Facilities Manager (Incoming)<br />
Samuel Hailey-Watts<br />
Duty Managers<br />
Lauren Holden<br />
Maryam Shofowora<br />
Coral Tarran<br />
Ushers<br />
Joe Ackerman<br />
Rosemarie Akwafo<br />
Michael Asiamah<br />
Simone Bell<br />
Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong<br />
Debbie Burningham<br />
Oliver Byng<br />
Shankho Chaudhuri<br />
Aran Cherkez<br />
Maurice Chung<br />
Daniella Connor<br />
Luca Criscuolo<br />
Molly-Rose Curran<br />
Andre Da Silva-Jenkins<br />
Francesca De Sica<br />
Eboni Dixon<br />
Aisha Edwards<br />
Donal Finn<br />
Albert Graver<br />
Kanishka Gupta<br />
Susan Harrold<br />
Owen Haslegrave<br />
Patrick Hatch<br />
Josh Hitchman-Pinnock<br />
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Theo Hung<br />
Jess James<br />
“Newton” James Thomas Newton<br />
Hana Jennings<br />
Grace Kayibanda<br />
Aaron Kelly<br />
Urielle Klein-Mekongo<br />
Lynn Knight<br />
Melina Morris<br />
Glenn Mortimer<br />
Dynzell Muguti<br />
Taz Munyaneza<br />
Tobi Oludipe<br />
Julie Patten<br />
Grainne Pearson Cockrill<br />
Daniel Pickard<br />
Sahana Rackal<br />
Gracjana Rejmer-Canovas<br />
Thea Sandall<br />
Malika Sandover<br />
Jonathan Savage<br />
Joanna Selcott<br />
Paula Shaw<br />
Chenta Shayen Mariqueo<br />
Linden Sloan<br />
Edd Soper<br />
Tom Sparkes<br />
Lethanial Stacey-Coombe<br />
Mark Vanderstoop<br />
Isaac Vincent<br />
Kitti Wells<br />
Annys Whyatt<br />
Eve Williams<br />
Marketing & Audiences<br />
Director of Marketing and Audiences<br />
Beatrice Burrows<br />
Head of Press and Communications<br />
Emma Hardy<br />
Marketing Manager<br />
Steph Cullen<br />
Ticketing Manager<br />
Zoe Fitzpatrick<br />
Digital Marketing and<br />
Communications Officer<br />
Jarrod Jones<br />
Production<br />
Technical Director<br />
Stuart Robertson<br />
Production Manager<br />
(Technical Director from 19 July)<br />
Jaz Sandalli<br />
Head of Sound<br />
Kyle MacPherson<br />
Head of Stage<br />
Craig Tye<br />
Head of Costume<br />
Sarah Hamza<br />
Head of Lighting<br />
Sam McLeod<br />
Deputy Head of Sound<br />
Bryony Blackler<br />
Deputy Head of Stage<br />
Rhodri Sion Evans<br />
Deputy Head of Lighting<br />
Faye Hetherington<br />
Workshop Carpenter<br />
Rachel MacLoughlin<br />
Lighting Technician<br />
Saul Richardson<br />
Production Administrator<br />
Rachel Salenius<br />
Taking Part<br />
Director of Taking Part<br />
Shereen Jasmin Phillips<br />
Neighbourhood Theatre Producer<br />
Alisha Artry<br />
Participation Producer<br />
Lorna McGinty<br />
Learning Producer<br />
Melanie Anouf<br />
Taking Part Administrator<br />
Vicky Olusanya<br />
Welcome Team<br />
Welcome Team Manager<br />
Ciara O’Toole<br />
Welcome Team<br />
Johanna Kean<br />
Rory Horne<br />
Chris Gyllenhaal<br />
Max Puplett<br />
Julie Patten<br />
Edd Soper<br />
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YOUNG VIC 2021 SEASON<br />
KLIPPIES<br />
4 AUG – 13 AUG 2021<br />
Diyan Zora, Genesis Foundation<br />
Future Directors Award recipient,<br />
directs Jessica Siân’s acclaimed<br />
debut play, Klippies, a gritty<br />
coming-of-age drama about<br />
an unlikely friendship and the<br />
intensity of first love.<br />
The Genesis Future Directors Award Program<br />
is made possible by<br />
AI<br />
23 AUG – 25 AUG 2021<br />
Jennifer Tang, Genesis Fellow and<br />
YV Associate Director, directs AI<br />
– a unique collaboration between<br />
human and computer minds.<br />
Developed by Chinonyerem Odimba<br />
and Nina Segal & written alongside<br />
GPT-3 Open AI technology,<br />
this play is an exciting hybrid of<br />
research & performance.<br />
HAMLET<br />
25 SEP – 13 NOV 2021<br />
Cush Jumbo makes her YV debut<br />
as Hamlet in Greg Hersov’s muchanticipated<br />
production of the<br />
Shakespearean tragedy.<br />
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YV UNPACKED:<br />
LOVE REIGN<br />
18 OCT – 23 OCT 2021<br />
Love Reign is a love letter to<br />
friendships, how we begin them,<br />
how we honour them and how<br />
we preserve them against all<br />
odds in our lives. Written by<br />
Director of Taking Part<br />
Shereen Jasmin Phillips and<br />
directed by Stef O’Driscoll.<br />
SUNDOWN KIKI<br />
5 NOV – 12 NOV 2021<br />
Filling the Maria with sequins,<br />
celebratory togetherness, and a<br />
healthy dose of shade, Sundown Kiki<br />
will bring the world of theatre and<br />
ballroom together in an explosive<br />
evening of music, dance, walking,<br />
and partying. Creative direction<br />
by Jay Jay Revlon, directed by<br />
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, with sound<br />
and composition by XANA.<br />
BEST OF ENEMIES<br />
2 DEC 2021 – 22 JAN 2022<br />
1968. Divided America. As<br />
two men fight to become the<br />
next President of the United<br />
States, all eyes are on the battle<br />
between two others: the cunningly<br />
conservative William F Buckley Jr.,<br />
and the iconoclastic Gore Vidal.<br />
James Graham’s new play is<br />
directed by Jeremy Herrin, in<br />
a co-production with Headlong.<br />
Inspired by the documentary by<br />
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon.<br />
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ACCESS PERFORMANCES AT THE YOUNG VIC<br />
RELAXED PERFORMANCES<br />
<strong>Changing</strong> <strong>Destiny</strong> Tue 17 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
Hamlet Tue 2 Nov, 7pm<br />
Best of Enemies Thu 13 Jan, 7.30pm<br />
AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES<br />
<strong>Changing</strong> <strong>Destiny</strong> Thu 19 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
Hamlet Tue 19 Oct, 7pm<br />
Best of Enemies Fri 17 Dec, 7.30pm<br />
CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES<br />
<strong>Changing</strong> <strong>Destiny</strong> Thu 5 Aug, 7.30pm<br />
Klippies Thu 12 Aug, 7.45pm<br />
Hamlet Thu 4 Nov, 7pm<br />
Best of Enemies Thu 6 Jan, 7.30pm<br />
If you would like to book an induction loop,<br />
require someone to look after your assistance<br />
dog during a performance, or have any other<br />
access requirements, please let us know in<br />
advance so we can make your visit as enjoyable<br />
as possible.<br />
For more information call: 020 7922 2922<br />
Textphone 18001 020 7922 2922<br />
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TAKING PART AT THE YOUNG VIC<br />
Taking Part is our creative engagement department that works with young<br />
people, adults, schools, and our local community. We engage with over 15,000<br />
people a year, providing free tickets to all our shows and free creative and<br />
artistic opportunities to our participants.<br />
Our three strands, Learning, Participation, and<br />
Neighbourhood Theatre, create work that is the<br />
beating heart of the organisation. Each year<br />
Taking Part’s programme responds to a shared<br />
theme. Last year we explored ‘Home, History and<br />
Heritage’ and this year we are responding to the<br />
provocation ‘Freedom of Expression’.<br />
We think of the Young Vic as ‘the home you didn’t<br />
know you had’ – come in and join us. To find out more<br />
about our projects and how you can get involved,<br />
please visit youngvic.org/taking-part or follow<br />
@yvtakingpart on Twitter.<br />
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2021 SEASON SUPPORTERS<br />
Public Support<br />
Season Support<br />
The Young Vic’s 2021 season is also supported by the Genesis Foundation and IHS Markit.<br />
We gratefully acknowledge Ian Burford and Alec Cannell for generously supporting the Young Vic’s mission.<br />
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THE YOUNG VIC BOARD<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
Glenn Earle (chair)<br />
Varun Chandra<br />
Nicky Dunn OBE<br />
Robert Easton<br />
Farah Ramzan Golant CBE<br />
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith MBE<br />
Ali Hossaini<br />
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE<br />
Ebele Okobi<br />
Abigail Sewell<br />
Fiona Shaw<br />
Sita Thomas<br />
Steve Tompkins MBE<br />
Anna Williams<br />
Development Board<br />
Rachel Conlan (co-chair)<br />
Ebele Okobi (co-chair)<br />
Beatrice Bondy<br />
Gerard Crichlow<br />
Annabel Duncan-Smith<br />
Glenn Earle<br />
Sophie Hale<br />
Will Meldrum<br />
Barbara Reeves<br />
Sarah Thorpe<br />
The Young Vic gratefully recognises<br />
the following Trustees who retired from<br />
board service between March 2020<br />
and April 2021:<br />
Sean Egan<br />
David Fletcher<br />
Rory Kinnear<br />
Rita Skinner<br />
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YOUNG VIC SUPPORTERS<br />
Young Vic supporters realise our mission of creating extraordinary theatre, sharing<br />
the joy of creativity with our community and investing in the artists of tomorrow.<br />
They make everything we do possible, and we are deeply grateful to them all.<br />
For their recent support we thank:<br />
£100,000+<br />
Arts Council England<br />
Bloomberg*<br />
Ian Burford & Alec Cannell<br />
Culture Recovery Fund, DCMS<br />
Glenn & Phyllida Earle<br />
Garfield Weston Foundation<br />
Genesis Foundation<br />
IHS Markit<br />
Patrick & Sholpan McKenna<br />
£50,000 – £99,999<br />
Backstage Trust<br />
Bank of America*<br />
Jo Braun<br />
The Charlotte Aitken Trust<br />
Robert Easton & Elza Blankenburgs<br />
Southwark Council<br />
£20,000 – £49,999<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
American Express<br />
Audible<br />
The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust<br />
Sarah & Tim Bunting<br />
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation<br />
Cockayne – Grants for the Arts<br />
H&M Foundation<br />
Sophie Hale & Roland Rudd<br />
Jerwood Arts<br />
Lambeth Council<br />
Paul Hamlyn Foundation<br />
Karl-Johan Persson<br />
Clive & Sally Sherling<br />
Rita & Paul Skinner<br />
and all our members and supporters,<br />
whose generosity strengthens and<br />
sustains our work.<br />
*Young Vic Corporate Member<br />
Listing current as of 25 June 2021.<br />
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£10,000 – £19,999<br />
Bankside Hotel<br />
Lionel Barber &<br />
Victoria Greenwood<br />
The Boris Karloff<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Sandra Cavlov<br />
Ian & Caroline Cormack<br />
Lin & Ken Craig<br />
Manfred & Lydia Gorvy<br />
The Harold Hyam<br />
Wingate Foundation<br />
Tracey, Eloise & Max Mayerson<br />
Ingenious Media Plc*<br />
Jack & Linda Keenan<br />
Adam Kenwright<br />
Kidron Hall Charitable Trust<br />
Sarah & Dominic Murphy<br />
Richenthal Foundation<br />
Sea Containers London*<br />
Jon & NoraLee Sedmak<br />
Dasha Shenkman<br />
United St Saviour’s Charity<br />
Dominic Wallington<br />
£1,000 – £9,999<br />
Anonymous (3)<br />
The 29th of May 1961 Charitable<br />
Trust<br />
AKA*<br />
The Andor Charitable Trust<br />
Jennifer Bailey<br />
Chris & Frances Bates<br />
Lady Primrose Bell<br />
Sarah Billinghurst Solomon<br />
Adrian & Lisa Binks<br />
Tony & Gisela Bloom<br />
Beatrice Bondy<br />
Simon & Sally Borrows<br />
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation<br />
Katie Bradford<br />
CJ & LM Braithwaite<br />
Dr Neil & Sarah Brener<br />
Sylvie & Leon Bressler<br />
Clive & Helena Butler<br />
Monkey Chambers<br />
Chapman Charitable Trust<br />
The Charlotte Bonham-Carter<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
The Cleopatra Trust<br />
The John S Cohen Foundation<br />
Rachel Conlan<br />
Victoria Corcoran<br />
Lord Mervyn Davies<br />
Roger & Alison De Haan<br />
Scott M Delman<br />
Annabel Duncan-Smith<br />
Robyn Durie<br />
Marielle Ednalino & Ken Lamb<br />
Jennifer & Jeff Eldredge<br />
Sir Vernon & Lady Ellis<br />
Don Ellwood & Sandra Johnigan<br />
Embassy of Spain<br />
David Fein & Liz Oestreich<br />
Finsbury Glover Hering*<br />
Adam Freudenheim<br />
Gillian Frumkin<br />
The Golden Bottle Trust<br />
The Golsoncott Foundation<br />
Alan & Ros Haigh<br />
Sarah Hall<br />
Katherine Hallgarten<br />
Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau<br />
Nick Hern<br />
Madeleine Hodgkin<br />
Nik Holttum & Helen Brannigan<br />
Mike & Caroline Howes<br />
The Hoxton Southwark<br />
Tom & Caron Ilube<br />
John Lyon’s Charity<br />
The John Thaw Foundation<br />
Melanie Johnson<br />
Jones Day*<br />
John & Gerry Kinder<br />
Carol Lake<br />
Ben Langworthy<br />
Victoria Leggett<br />
Clive Lewis<br />
Jill & Justin Manson<br />
The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust<br />
Memery Crystal*<br />
Barbara Minto<br />
The Lowy Mitchell Foundation<br />
Carole Neuhaus<br />
Newcomen Collett Foundation<br />
The Noël Coward Foundation<br />
Georgia Oetker<br />
Ebele Okobi<br />
Rob & Lesley O’Rahilly<br />
Simon & Midge Palley<br />
Sarig Peker<br />
Heather & Julia Randall<br />
The Red Hill Trust<br />
Barbara Reeves<br />
The Richard Radcliffe Charitable<br />
Trust<br />
The Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg<br />
Foundation<br />
Corinne Rooney<br />
Sue Roy<br />
Royal Norwegian Embassy<br />
Sir Paul & Lady Ruddock<br />
Carol Sellars<br />
Dr Bhagat Sharma<br />
Jenny Sheridan<br />
Justin Shinebourne &<br />
Laurence Chaussinand<br />
Florian Simm<br />
Demola Soremekun<br />
Jan & Michael Topham<br />
TowerBrook Foundation*<br />
Nick Tsatsas<br />
U+I Group Plc<br />
Bill Updegraff & Aliza Bartfield<br />
Katleen van Roost<br />
Walcot Foundation<br />
Rob & Gillian Wallace<br />
Edgar & Judith Wallner<br />
Bill & Anda Winters<br />
Jill Hackel Zarzycki<br />
Julia Zilberman & Maxim Seltzer<br />
and all our members and supporters,<br />
whose generosity strengthens and<br />
sustains our work.<br />
*Young Vic Corporate Member<br />
Listing current as of 25 June 2021.<br />
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Join us as we present a new way to stream live theatre. Best Seat in Your House<br />
is our immersive, multi-camera broadcast designed to give you optimal choice as<br />
you watch a live show.<br />
Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah:<br />
“As the pandemic year saw us engage with theatre in<br />
online spaces, I’ve been grappling with how technology<br />
could be used to heighten the liveliness that sits at the<br />
heart of the in-person theatre experience. How can<br />
we make our audience feel part of the show from their<br />
homes? How can we make the experience as flexible<br />
and accessible as possible? These are questions that<br />
shape the Young Vic’s mission as a theatre, and<br />
so must naturally extend to our digital offer.<br />
With Best Seat in Your House, we’ve taken a bold step<br />
into the future of the theatre-streaming experience.<br />
We’ve put choice at the heart of every element, giving<br />
audiences the space to engage with our streamed work<br />
in an entirely new way.”<br />
WHAT IS BEST SEAT IN YOUR HOUSE?<br />
Designed with flexibility in mind, our innovative<br />
next step in live theatre streaming is designed<br />
to place you at the heart of the action, with<br />
each show feeling like a brand new experience.<br />
We give you two streaming options: Director’s Chair<br />
or Director’s Cut.<br />
Director’s Chair<br />
By taking the Director’s Chair, YOU take control<br />
of your view of the show, as you cut between any<br />
of the cameras placed around the theatre at any<br />
time throughout the live performance. The choice is<br />
yours. Whatever your preference, your view will be<br />
complemented by a high-quality audio mix of the show.<br />
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Director’s Cut<br />
Alternatively, you can choose our Director’s Cut<br />
option. Sit back as we deliver a more traditional live<br />
edit of the show from the theatre to your screen,<br />
created with the show’s director and mixed by our<br />
production team.<br />
WHAT WILL THE EXPERIENCE BE LIKE?<br />
The Young Vic has famously one of the most<br />
flexible auditoriums in London, where our artists<br />
are encouraged to design without barriers. In our<br />
theatre, the seating is never quite the same from<br />
one show to the next.<br />
Similarly, the broadcast experience for each show<br />
will be designed bespoke for the production, with<br />
cameras positioned to offer exciting perspectives of<br />
our live shows.<br />
A robo-camera rig with multiple cameras will be<br />
contstructed around the auditorium to capture the<br />
performance, and these feeds will be broadcast<br />
direct to your device. Camera operators will control<br />
the robo-cameras, continually ensuring every shot<br />
gives you an exciting new perspective of the show.<br />
From the comfort of home, you will be able to pick<br />
which camera feed you watch. At any point, you can<br />
switch to a different view for a new perspective –<br />
almost as though you were able to move seats in our<br />
auditorium to continually find your favourite view!<br />
WHAT DEVICES CAN I WATCH THIS ON?<br />
With flexibility at the centre of this new innovation,<br />
we want our broadcasts to be compatible with as many<br />
devices as possible. Stream on a phone, tablet, laptop,<br />
or even cast to your television. However, for the best<br />
experience, we recommend using a laptop.<br />
WHAT ARE YOUR ACCESS PROVISIONS?<br />
Captions, audio description and British Sign<br />
Language will be available for every performance.<br />
WANT TO KNOW MORE?<br />
Visit youngvic.org/bestseatinyourhouse<br />
Best Seat in Your House is made in collaboration<br />
with YV Artistic Associate Duncan McLean.<br />
The development of Best Seat in Your House<br />
is supported by the Genesis Foundation’s Genesis<br />
Kickstart Fund.<br />
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Proud sponsor<br />
of the funded ticket programme<br />
Through IHS Markit’s support, the Young Vic offers nearly<br />
10,000 free tickets to young people and many that<br />
would not otherwise be able to enjoy the theatre.<br />
Our Friends and Soul Mates receive priority booking for all of our productions and enable us to create<br />
challenging and inspiring work on our stages and with our local communities. Be right at the heart of it all.<br />
Membership starts at £40 a year. Join at the box office today or call the Development Team on 020 7922 2810.<br />
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For more information on how we can tailor a bespoke<br />
high performance workshop to your business needs contact<br />
HighPerformance@youngvic.org or call 020 7922 2813<br />
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