The Young Vic Theatre right now declares full casting for its 2023 new season opening manufacturing Further than the Furthest Thing, the multi-award-winning trendy traditional by Zinnie Harris (Macbeth (an undoing), This Restless House, How To Hold Your Breath) in a visionary revival by Genesis Fellow / Young Vic Associate Director Jennifer Tang (AI, Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok). It runs within the Young Vic Main House from 9 March to 29 April. Tickets are on sale at www.youngvic.org
Gerald Kyd (The Seagull, Deep Blue Sea) performs Mr Hansen, Archie Madekwe (Midsommar, See) performs Francis, Cyril Nri (Trouble in Mind, The Barbershop Chronicles, The Bill) performs Bill, Kirsty Rider (The Sandman, The Doctor, Nora: A Doll’s House) performs Rebecca, and Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated Jenna Russell (Fun Home, Piaf) performs Mill, with dwell vocals offered by Shapla Salique (No Boundaries).
Based on actual occasions on the island of Tristan da Cunha, probably the most distant inhabited archipelago on the earth, the story follows a group haunted by its previous and below risk from a contemporary world in disaster.
On a distant volcanic island in the midst of the Atlantic, the islanders of Tristan da Cunha have lived undisturbed for hundreds of years, defying the swirling currents of modernity. Cut off and uncovered to the weather, their survival has created a posh bind with their land. But when one of many inhabitants brings an outsider to the island, their lifestyle is modified perpetually.
Director Jennifer Tang’s new interpretation, the primary main London staging in additional than 20 years, revisits the play by a recent lens interrogating the local weather emergency and globalisation. It would be the closing manufacturing in her function as Genesis Fellow / Associate Director on the Young Vic following her ground-breaking manufacturing AI in 2021.
Further than the Furthest Thing premiered in 2000, co-produced by the National Theatre and The Tron Glasgow, and gained an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Peggy Ramsay Award and John Whiting Award and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
The inventive crew is accomplished by Designer Soutra Gilmour, Lighting Designer Prema Mehta, Sound Designer George Dennis, Composer Ruth Chan, Movement Director Ingrid Mackinnon, Voice and Dialect Coach Emma Woodvine, Musical Director Michael Henry, Illusions Designer John Bulleid, and Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG.