Ben Whishaw. Kathryn Hunter. debbie tucker inexperienced. A “Thelma & Louise” musical.
The Younger Vic has unveiled a 2026/7 season stacked with world and U.Okay. premieres operating from September by way of July throughout the theater’s Important Home and Maria Studio, creative director and CEO Nadia Fall revealed Thursday.
The season opens with the world premiere of “Thelma & Louise” as a brand new musical, starring Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox within the title roles, with an authentic rating by Grammy-nominated artist Neko Case. The manufacturing carries a guide by Callie Khouri, who wrote the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning screenplay on which it’s based mostly, and will likely be directed by Journey Cullman. Tucker (“Depraved,” “Come From Away”) leads as Louise reverse Lennox (“Cabaret,” “Kinky Boots”) as Thelma. It’s a co-production between the Younger Vic, Sonia Friedman Productions, Blue Spruce Productions, Ley Line Leisure and Khouri, developed in affiliation with MGM On Stage, with Mandy Greenfield and Sonia Friedman Productions serving as inventive producers. It runs Sept. 3 to Oct. 24.
“It’s nonetheless a wild and emotional trip made even higher by the contribution of the big skills of Neko Case, Journey Cullman and our wonderful inventive staff,” Khouri mentioned. “I can’t watch for audiences to expertise this well timed re-telling.”
The Important Home slate continues in November with the English-language premiere of “Eurotrash,” tailored by Colin Teevan from Christian Kracht’s internationally bestselling novel and directed by Walter Meierjohann. Kathryn Hunter and Ben Whishaw – who shared the display in Netflix’s “Black Doves” – play a son and his growing old mom who set off on a chaotic Alpine highway journey to get rid of a fortune whose origins neither might be happy with. The present is a co-production between the Younger Vic and Purple Peter Productions, the corporate fashioned by Hunter, Meierjohann and Teevan in 2025. It runs Nov. 13 to Jan. 9, 2027.
“I really feel privileged to have been entrusted with bringing her to life – her eccentricities, contradictions, and complexities – reverse the sensible Ben Whishaw,” Hunter mentioned, noting that the manufacturing reunites her with Meierjohann and Teevan a decade after their final Younger Vic collaboration, “The Emperor.”
Whishaw referred to as the prospect of working with Hunter “thrilling,” including that he was wanting to discover “the wealthy, complicated relationship between a mom and son that sits on the coronary heart of Christian Kracht’s sensible, unsettling and really humorous novel.”
The U.Okay. premiere of “La Distance,” written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues – the Portuguese playwright who presently heads the Pageant d’Avignon – arrives Jan. 22 to Feb. 13, 2027. Initially staged at Avignon in 2025, the play follows a father and daughter whose bond is examined throughout the vastness of area as one among them begins a brand new life on Mars whereas Earth deteriorates. Unique forged members Adama Diop and Alison Dechamps reprise their roles. The manufacturing is carried out in French with English surtitles.
Olivier and BAFTA Award winner debbie tucker inexperienced, whose earlier Younger Vic work consists of “ear for eye,” returns with the world premiere of “dissent,” a brand new play that interrogates the situations beneath which odd individuals turn into complicit in atrocity. It runs Mar. 5 to Apr. 24, 2027. The season closes with the primary U.Okay. staging in 20 years of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean,” directed by Fall herself, operating Might 14 to July 10, 2027.
Within the Maria Studio, the immersive Edinburgh Fringe pop-up Shedinburgh makes its London debut Sept. 19 to Oct. 10, with a reconstructed shed venue internet hosting greater than 40 exhibits from artists together with Inua Ellams, Sara Pascoe, Bryony Kimmings and Rosie Jones. The manufacturing is introduced by Francesca Moody Productions in affiliation with the Younger Vic. Ellams additionally headlines a stand-alone “R.A.P. Social gathering” occasion on Oct. 14 honouring the late D’Angelo, with 10 modern poets responding to his debut album “Brown Sugar.” Later within the Maria, Ewa Dina – recipient of the 2026 JMK Award – makes her Younger Vic directing debut with a revival of Theresa Ikoko’s “Women,” which facilities on three teenage mates whose lives are upended when armed insurgents abduct them from their properties. It runs Oct. 22 to Nov. 21.
“Our 2026/7 season welcomes highly effective worldwide storytelling into our distinctive shape-shifting areas, transporting audiences from the American mid-west to Nigeria and from the Swiss Alps, to a pink planet within the depths of our photo voltaic system,” Fall mentioned. “From blockbuster musicals to experimental new work and a celebration of the creativity and anarchy of the Edinburgh Fringe, I can’t wait to share this new program with you all.”
