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COMING UP...<br />
A TAKING PART PRODUCTION FROM<br />
HAMLET<br />
27 SEP – 13 NOV 2021<br />
Cush Jumbo makes her Young Vic debut as<br />
Hamlet in Greg Hersov’s much-anticipated<br />
production of the Shakespearean tragedy.<br />
SUNDOWN KIKI<br />
5 NOV – 12 NOV 2021<br />
Filling the Maria with sequins, celebratory<br />
togetherness, and a healthy dose of shade,<br />
Sundown Kiki will bring the world of theatre<br />
and ballroom together in an explosive evening<br />
of music, dance, walking, and partying.<br />
Creative direction by Jay Jay Revlon, directed<br />
by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, with sound and<br />
composition by XANA.<br />
BEST OF ENEMIES<br />
2 DEC 2021 – 22 JAN 2022<br />
1968. Divided America. As two men fight to<br />
become the next President of the United States,<br />
all eyes are on the battle between two others:<br />
the cunningly conservative William F Buckley Jr.,<br />
and the iconoclastic Gore Vidal. James Graham’s<br />
new play is directed by Jeremy Herrin, in<br />
a co-production with Headlong. Inspired by<br />
the documentary by Morgan Neville and<br />
Robert Gordon.<br />
YOUNGVIC.ORG #YoungVic #YVUnpacked #TheatreYouCanVibeTo
YV UNPACKED: LOVE REIGN<br />
TOURING TO:<br />
South Bank University Academy • Dunraven School<br />
Women In Prison (Beth Centre) @ Wandsworth Hub • Blackfriars Settlement<br />
Park Campus Academy • Certitude London x Portico Gallery<br />
Maudsley Hospital • Thamesreach • Greenvale Specialist Care Unit<br />
LOVE REIGN COMPANY<br />
Roe Tanika Yearwood<br />
<strong>Reign</strong> Redd Lily Roche<br />
BAND MEMBERS<br />
On Keys Neeta Sarl<br />
On Drums Shakira Malkani<br />
On Bass Hannah Ledwidge<br />
Writer Shereen Jasmin Phillips<br />
Director Stef O’Driscoll<br />
Musical Director & Composer Neeta Sarl<br />
Movement Director Rachael Nanyonjo<br />
Design Consultant Khadija Raza<br />
Production Manager Sarah Barton<br />
Company Stage Manager Katherine Rutson<br />
Deputy Stage Manager Emily Behague<br />
Trainee Assistant Director Tomi Adewusi<br />
Sound Operator Lateef Salvador Oshinowo<br />
Sound Supervisor Kyle MacPherson<br />
Lighting Supervisor Sam McLeod<br />
Costume Supervisor Sarah Hamza<br />
Co-Producer Alisha Artry<br />
Assistant Producer Jordi Carter<br />
Special thanks to:<br />
Taking Part Department, YV Production Department, Kyle MacPherson,<br />
Audrey Sheffield, Shiloh Coke, Bellatrix, Yolanda Mercy, Seroca Davis,<br />
Kelechi Okafor and Cat Simmons.<br />
SHEREEN JASMIN PHILLIPS WRITER<br />
Shereen Jasmin Phillips graduated from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2010 with a degree in<br />
Drama, Applied Theatre and Education. She has worked within artistic and engagement departments at various<br />
London Theatres. She was Project Manager for Kiln Theatre’s 2016 Takeover festival, Barbican Centre’s 2017<br />
Dialogue Festival and Outreach Producer for Barbican Cinema. Shereen was previously Assistant Producer for<br />
National Theatre’s Pericles as part of their Public Acts programme and is currently Director of Taking Part at<br />
Young Vic. Shereen is also a Trustee of Talawa Theatre Company and Raw Material, a reader at NT and a writer<br />
– her short film was screened as part of Royal Court’s Windrush event in April 2019 and selected to be part of<br />
Cardiff’s International Festival in 2020. In 2021, she won a Writers Guild Olwen Wymark Award in recognition<br />
of her work championing new writing.<br />
STEF O’DRISCOLL DIRECTOR<br />
Stef is an award winning theatre director and storymaker. She was previously the Artistic Director of<br />
nabokov, the Associate Director at Paines Plough and the Lyric Hammersmith. Accolades include With<br />
a Little Bit of Luck by Sabrina Mahfouz being the first radio play to be broadcast on BBC 1Xtra winning<br />
Best Radio production at the BBC Radio and Music Awards 2019.<br />
Directing credits include: Herstory (Arch 468 / Brighton Festival/Lighthouse ); A History of Water in the<br />
Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz (Royal Court Theatre); Inside This Box (Clean Break); Lit (Nottingham<br />
Playhouse/ Hightide); Box Clever (The Bunker); Yard Gal (Ovalhouse) winner Fringe Report Awards for<br />
Best Fringe Production 2009.<br />
For Paines Plough: On The Other Hand We’re Happy; Daughterhood; Dexter and Winter’s Detective<br />
Agency (Paines Plough / Theatre Clwyd 2019 Roundabout Season); Island Town; Sticks and Stones;<br />
How to Spot an Alien (Paines Plough / Theatre Clwyd 2018 Roundabout Season); With a Little Bit of Luck;<br />
Hopelessly Devoted.<br />
For the Lyric: as Co Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; as Associate Director: Mogadishu (Manchester<br />
Royal Exchange); as Assistant Director: Blasted – winner Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement<br />
in an Affiliate Theatre 2011.<br />
For nabokov: Last Night by Benin City (Roundhouse); Storytelling Army (Brighton Festival);<br />
and Slug (Latitude).<br />
TAKING PART<br />
Taking Part is our creative engagement department that works with young people, adults, schools, and our<br />
local community.<br />
We engage with over 15,000 people a year, providing free tickets to all our shows and free creative and artistic<br />
opportunities to our participants. Our three strands, Learning, Participation, and Neighbourhood Theatre, create<br />
work that is the beating heart of the organisation. Each year Taking Part’s programme responds to a shared<br />
theme. Last year we explored ‘Home, History and Heritage’ and this year we are responding to the provocation<br />
‘Freedom of Expression’.<br />
We think of the Young Vic as ‘the home you didn’t know you had’ – come in and join us.<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.
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