Young Vic announces 2026/27 season, including world premiere of THELMA & LOUISE

In the Main House

3 September to 24 October 2026: The season will open with the world premiere of Thelma & Louise, a brand-new musical adaptation of Callie Khouri’s Oscar and Golden-Globe winning film, featuring music and lyrics by Grammy-nominated iconoclast Neko Case. Directed by Trip Cullman (Choir Boy) and starring Amy Lennox (Cabaret, Kinky Boots) and Rachel Tucker (Wicked, Come From Away) in the title roles, Thelma & Louise follows two women on the run for murder, in a reimagining that feels even more urgently relevant to today's gender politics.

13 November 2026 to 9 January 2027: The premiere of the English language adaptation of Eurotrash reunites the creative team behind the Young Vic's hit productions Kafka's Monkey (2009) and The Emperor (2016). Ben Whishaw (Peter Hujar’s Day, This is Going to Hurt) and Kathryn Hunter (Poor Things, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) star as a mother and son who embark on a road trip through the Swiss Alps to give away their vast family fortune in an attempt to escape the shadows of their past. This dark comedy about family and redemption is an adaptation of Christian Kracht’s internationally best-selling novel, adapted by Colin Teevan (The Tank, Das Boot, Monkey!) and directed by Walter Meierjohann (Blindness, In the Red, Brown Water).

22 January to 13 February 2027: La Distance is an intimate, inventive play by Tiago Rodrigues (By Heart, Catarina, Beauty of Killing Fascists), Portuguese playwright and director, and current director of the Festival d’Avignon, where La Distance was first performed. The UK premiere of this powerful play will be performed in French, with English surtitles. It is a profound exploration of separation, hope, and the bond between parent and child, set within a collapsing world. Original cast members Alison Dechamps and Adama Diop reprise their roles as father and daughter.

5 March to 24 April 2027: The world premiere of dissent, an explosive new play about humanity's capacity for monstrous behaviour, is written and directed by Olivier and BAFTA award-winner debbie tucker green (ear for eye).

14 May to 10 July 2027: Young Vic Artistic Director and CEO Nadia Fall (Entertaining Mr Sloane) directs the first UK staging in 20 years of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, a moving exploration of resistance, redemption, and the enduring search for freedom. Gem of the Ocean is the first installment of a decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.

In the Maria

19 September to 10 October 2026: Straight from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Shedinburgh lands in London for the very first time. The immersive venue will be re-built in the Maria to present the very best of the Fringe, showcasing over 40 shows from artists including Inua Ellams, Sara Pascoe, Bryony Kimmings and Rosie Jones. This month-long residency will celebrate the creativity and diversity of the Fringe, featuring iconic shows alongside brand new work.

22 October to 21 November 2026: Ewa Dina (The Welsh Dragon), winner of the 2026 JMK Award, makes her Young Vic debut directing Theresa Ikoko’s (Rocks) award-winning play Girls. Set in Nigeria during the 2014 militant insurrection when hundreds of girls were kidnapped from their homes, it is the harrowing story of three friends and the difficult choices they make to survive.

On the new season, Nadia Fall said, "As we witness our global landscape become riddled with strife and division, we need spaces where connections and communities can be forged and cultivated."

The Young Vic's 2026/27 season will begin from this September.