Nadia Fall completes the Young Vic’s 2026/27 season with four boundary-pushing new shows, and confirms Lashana Lynch as the lead in debbie tucker green’s explosive new play, dissent.
Artistic Director Nadia Fall has announced the Young Vic season’s closing run featuring a Kafka-inspired cabaret-spectacle, a disability-led satire on identity politics, an immersive audio experience staged in a shipping container, and a piece of documentary theatre confronting one of the most significant criminal trials of the past decade.
Plus there’s major casting news for two already-announced productions, including Lashana Lynch (The Day of the Jackal) taking the lead in dissent, a new surveillance-state play from Olivier and BAFTA winner debbie tucker green.
Fall described the additions as “literally and figuratively ‘outside the box‘” in a season that ranges from event theatre staged outside the building entirely to an audio piece performed in total darkness.
The Pelicot Trial: a one-off tribute to Gisèle Pelicot
Content note: this piece deals directly with sexual violence.
Milo Rau and Servane Dècle’s documentary theatre piece receives its UK premiere for a single performance at London County Hall on 30 November 2026. Built from trial testimony, police files and psychiatric reports connected to Gisèle Pelicot’s case, and performed by a company of 30 actors and public figures, it’s framed by its creators as a tribute to the woman whose decision to make her trial public became a global symbol of the fight against sexual violence.
Rau has said the aim is “turning it into a story that belongs to all of us,” while Dècle described theatre’s purpose more simply: to “gather, experience, understand, transform.” The piece premiered at the Vienna Festival in June 2025.
A Hunger Artist: former Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson fasts for forty days
Choreographer Arthur Pita reunites with former Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson, the pair behind the Olivier-winning dance adaptation of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, for a spectacle built around Kafka’s short story of a performer who starves himself for public entertainment.
Cabaret artist Meow Meow joins as the Impresario, with live music from regular collaborator Frank Moon. Pita has called the piece “strange,” “visceral” and “profoundly human.” It runs at The Maria from 9 to 26 June 2027, and audiences should note they’ll be standing and moving throughout.
What’s the F**king Point?: FlawBored’s satire on identity and bureaucracy
Disability-led company FlawBored, known for It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure, bring their London premiere of a new satire skewering medical bureaucracy and the scramble for identity in an over-diagnosed age.
Written by Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani, Chloe Palmer and Josh Roche, who also directs, it plays The Maria from 2 to 24 April 2027. Every performance will be integrated audio described.
Eulogy: DARKFIELD’s shipping-container hotel
Immersive specialists DARKFIELD bring their binaural audio piece Eulogy to a shipping container stationed outside the Young Vic on The Cut, running 24 March to 24 April 2027.
Performed in complete darkness using speech-recognition technology, it casts the audience as guests in a hotel that exists only in their own heads. The piece premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2021 and has since toured the UK and Australia.
Lashana Lynch leads debbie tucker green’s dissent
The season’s biggest single casting reveal: Lashana Lynch will star in dissent, a new play written and directed by debbie tucker green, whose previous work includes ear for eye and generations. Set in a world where compliance is enforced and questions aren’t welcome, it’s green’s first new play for the Young Vic in this Main House slot, running 5 March to 24 April 2027.
Further casting for Eurotrash
Deanna H. Choi and Glyn Pritchard join the previously announced Kathryn Hunter and Ben Whishaw in Eurotrash, Colin Teevan’s stage adaptation of Christian Kracht’s novel, directed by Walter Meierjohann.
The dark comic road-trip through Switzerland’s wealth and history runs 13 November 2026 to 9 January 2027.
Key dates for the Young Vic’s 2026/27 season
- Eurotrash — 13 Nov 2026 to 9 Jan 2027
- The Pelicot Trial — 30 Nov 2026, one performance only, London County Hall
- La Distance — 22 Jan to 13 Feb 2027
- dissent — 5 Mar to 24 Apr 2027
- What’s the Fking Point?** — 2 to 24 Apr 2027
- Eulogy — 24 Mar to 24 Apr 2027
- Gem of the Ocean — 22 May to 17 Jul 2027
- A Hunger Artist — 9 to 26 Jun 2027
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