Casting has been announced for the Young Vic’s pop-up weekend of performances, The New Tomorrow, on Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 October.

Created to celebrate the venue’s 50th birthday, this marks the first piece of live theatre at the Young Vic since the pandemic began in March. The content will interrogate the change that has come and is coming, and what the next 50 years might hold.

Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Adjoa Andoh, Matthew Dunster, Paapa Essiedu, Martina Laird, Anoushka Lucas and Sophie Stone will perform short works from writers and artists Jade Anouka, Marina Carr, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Ruth Madeley, Amy Ng, Stef Smith, Jack Thorne, Isobel Waller-Bridge and Steve Waters, which will be directed by Young Vic Genesis Fellow and Associate Director, Jennifer Tang.

The performance will be hosted by Artistic Director, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and will also feature speeches from activists Shahidha Bari and Tom Gill, with Kwame Kwei-Armah Jr. as DJ.

Tickets for the event have already been allocated by a ticket lottery but will be live streamed for free via Facebook Live on Sunday 4 October at 4pm.

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