Chasing Hares at the Young Vic review: Compelling and timely, if a little on the nose Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play is not subtle but has much to say and paints a vivid picture of Kolkata life Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2022
Milli Bhatia on how raving and activism influence her work and directing Chasing Hares at the Young Vic One of London’s most exciting directors on her new show, how she seeks to leave audiences thrilled and shaken, and why now is an exciting moment for South Asian stories on stage Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2022
‘Words and stories can be dangerous’: director Milli Bhatia and writer Sonali Bhattacharyya Bhattacharyya’s play Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ Bhatia says The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022
Desmond McNamara obituary Other lives: Actor who worked on stage with the Young Vic, National and RSC, and was a familiar face on TV The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2022
The week in theatre: Oklahoma!; Unchain Me; House of Ife Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage? The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022
Daniel Fish on his dark new Oklahoma!: ‘We’re trying to deal with violence, injustice, and community’ The New York theatre director and actors Arthur Darvill, Anoushka Lucas and Patrick Vaill talk to Sarah Crompton about turning the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic into the most challenging version ever, and finding the truth of it in this moment for the London stage The Independent UK · May 5, 2022
The Young Vic announces Nelson Mandela musical as part of new season The production promises to tell the story “of Mandela the man and Mandela the movement” Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2022
Premiere of Mandela musical to be flagship for Young Vic in 2022 Theatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2022
The Olivier Awards nominees, performances and air time Anything Goes and Life of Pi are among this years performances Liverpool Echo · Apr 10, 2022
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022
Denise Coffey obituary Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2022
The Collaboration review: Paul Bettany is a neurotic Andy Warhol in this fantastically enjoyable play Anthony McCarten’s Young Vic pacy production is an exercise in giving the audience what they want The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2022
The Collaboration at the Young Vic: the story behind Warhol and Basquiat’s game of art Just how did two of New York’s most fêted - but wildly different - artists end up collaborating, and why? Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2022
Conundrum review: A frustratingly undersketched look at prejudice and failure Anthony Ofoegbu takes on the role of both energetic schoolboy and brow-beaten adult with impressive nimbleness in this swirling, repetitive Young Vic production The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2022 Conundrum review – intense existential crisis gets lost in abstraction Anthony Ofoegbu portrays a man at the end of his tether, but this play gives frustratingly few clues as to how he got there