The Young Vic’s 2026/27 season spans a world premiere musical, major new plays, an immersive shipping-container experience and a one-off tribute to Gisèle Pelicot.  

Experience an extraordinary season of new shows at the award-winning Young Vic for its 2026/27 season, from the world premiere of Thelma & Louise: A New Musical, alongside debbie tucker green’s dissent, Girls, and Eurotrash, starring Ben Whishaw (Paddington) and Kathryn Hunter (Black Doves), plus a one-off tribute to Gisèle Pelicot.  The season will be running across the Young Vic’s Main House and Maria Studio from September 2026 to July 2027.

World premieres and major new plays  

The season opens with the world premiere of Thelma & Louise: A New Musical. The show is adapted by the film’s original screenwriter Callie Khouri with music by Neko Case, and stars Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker (3 September – 24 October 2026).  

Eurotrash: An English-language stage premiere of Christian Kracht’s novel reunites Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter as a mother and son on a darkly comic road trip through the Swiss Alps (13 November 2026 – 9 January 2027).  

La Distance: The UK premiere of Tiago Rodrigues’s intimate sci-fi drama set between Earth and a collapsing Mars, plays in French with English subtitles (22 January – 13 February 2027).  

dissent: A new surveillance-state play written and directed by Olivier and BAFTA winner debbie tucker green, staring Lashana Lynch (5 March – 24 April 2027).  

Gem of the Ocean: August Wilson‘s 1904-set drama of resistance and redemption, receives its first UK staging in 20 years. directed by Nadia Fall (14 May – 10 July 2027).  

Boundary-pushing productions

Rounding out the Maria Studio programme is Girls – Ewa Dina’s debut staging of Theresa Ikoko’s story of three friends kidnapped in Nigeria (22 October – 21 November 2026).

A Hunger Artist: Arthur Pita and Edward Watson’s cabaret-infused reunion inspired by Kafka (9-26 June 2027).

What’s the F**king Point?: FlawBored’s disability-led London premiere satirising medical bureaucracy and identity politics (2 – 24 April 2027).  

Eulogy: Immersive specialists DARKFIELD bring their binaural audio piece Eulogy to a shipping container stationed outside the Young Vic on The Cut (24 March – 24 April 2027).

The Pelicot Trial: Milo Rau and Servane Dècle’s documentary theatre tribute to Gisèle Pelicot – built from trial testimony and staged for a single performance at London County Hall (30 November 2026).  

Check out the new Young Vic season for 2026/27 



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Thelma & Louise

3 September 2026 - 24 October 2026
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Girls

22 October 2026 - 21 November 2026
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Eurotrash

13 November 2026 - 7 January 2027
Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter star in Eurotrash at the Young Vic - a darkly comic new play about family, fortune and redemption.
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La Distance

22 January 2027 - 13 February 2027
Across Earth and Mars, a father and daughter are separated by more than distance. Book La Distance tickets at the Young Vic, London
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dissent

5 March 2027 - 24 April 2027
dissent at the Young Vic is a powerful new play by debbie tucker green exploring control and complicity.
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Eulogy

24 March 2027 - 17 April 2026
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What's the F**king Point?

2 April 2027 - 24 April 2026
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Gem of the Ocean

14 April 2027 - 10 July 2026
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A Hunger Artist

9 July 2026 - 26 July 2026
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