The Young Vic has announced two new plays, The Homecoming and Nachtland, for 2023/24.
Matthew Dunster will direct Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming from November 27, 2023 – January 27, 2024. The designer is Moi Tran.
Max. Sam. Lennie. Joey. Teddy.
And Ruth.
In a small house in East London lives a family of butchers, boxers and brutes. When academic son Teddy returns home from America, with a wife his family have never met, a strange and carnal power struggle between man, wife and in-laws ensues.
Pinter’s unnerving modern classic and Tony Award-winning play, The Homecoming, is described as thrillingly re-explored in a new production by Dunster.
Nachtland, a satire by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade and directed by Patrick Marber, runs from February 20 – April 20, 2024. Young Vic associate artist Anna Fleischle will design.
‘Do you want this hanging over your kitchen table to remind you of your Daddy?’ Modern day Germany. Nicola and Philipp argue as they clear out their late father’s house. When they find an old painting stashed in the attic, things get savage. The painting is a quaint street scene from 1920s Vienna; the work of a failed artist who abandoned his original vocation for Nazism… Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. His wife Judith wants to burn it.
Nachtland* is a mordant satire about marriage, legacy, the rise of the new right, and terrible impulses buried deep. The UK premiere is directed by Marber, who recently won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for Leopoldstadt.
*Nachtland is an invented German word. It suggests a place of eternal darkness.
