Brook and Beckett Part of Young Vic's '07/8 Season
By: BWW News Desk May. 23, 2007
A collection of Samuel Beckett short plays helmed by legendary director Peter Brook will be among the highlights of the Young Vic's 2007-2008 season, according to Whatsonstage.com.
Based on the hit 1997 film, Ma Vie en Rose will open the season from August 22nd through August 25th. The production will feature 40 actors in a story that "follows a young boy who longs to be a girl," according to the website.
Fragments, four short plays by Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame) with a text extract, will be directed by Brook and will feature Marcello Magni, Jozef Houben and Kathryn Hunter. "The piece, which is similar in feel to the Big Brecht Fest season which highlighted four little known Brecht plays, is a co-production between Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and the Young Vic."
The Investigation, while not produced by the Young Vic, will have its UK premiere from October 31st through November 10th. The play is "a shortened version of Peter Weiss's documentary play based on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials...performed by a group of actors from Rwanda, a country that has suffered from genocide itself."
The Brothers Size, a play by American dramatist Tarell Alvin McCraney, will run in November and December. Directed by Bijan Shebani, "it tells of two brothers, one of whom owns an auto-repair shop and the other who has just been released from prison but always seems to make the wrong decisions."
Presented by the South African company Portobello, two productions will be performed in repertory between November 20th and January 19th. Portobello's producer Eric Abraham and director Mark Dornford-May will present versions of the classic opera The Magic Flute, as well as A Christmas Carol. "The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo) is sung through, but without the usually assumed accompaniment of an orchestra, while A Christmas Carol (Ikrismas Kherol) is also given the musical treatment. Both stories are transposed to a township setting."
Visit www.youngvic.org for more information.
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