Here’s some production images for Let the Right One In, National Youth Theatre REP Company’s production of Jack Thorne’s stage adaptation of the Swedish novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Now playing at Underbelly Boulevard Soho, this dark coming-of-age vampire thriller is directed by James Dacre and forms part of the REP’s 2026 Love Bites season.
Oskar is a bullied, lonely teenage boy, living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighbourhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time.
The 2025/6 NYT REP company consists of Olamide Ajisafe, Joshua Aketse-Entsie, Jo Bentley, Nicholas Bhar, Rhia Burston, Maya Coates, Louise Coggrave, Jack David Collard, Mascuud Dahir, Nicky Dune, Rachael Dowsett, Sumah Ebele, Sasha Jagsi, Rhys Quilley, Devonté Sackitey, Luka Wellman, Amy Young and Christopher Yi. They are joined by Michelle Asante and Colin Tierney for this production.
Let the Right One In was commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland and Marla Rubin Productions. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in November 2013 under the direction of John Tiffany. The play received its West End premiere in April 2014. On January 20, 2015, the play made its New York debut at St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
The production is playing at Underbelly Boulevard Soho until May 23, 2026. Tickets are on sale here.
Top image: NYT REP members performing Let the Right One In (credit Johan Persson) (image supplied)