The Young Vic to re-open with free weekend festival to celebrate 50th anniversary

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The Young Vic will re-open in October for a free weekend festival of commissioned short pieces and speeches, to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

The New Tomorrow festival will be a socially distanced event running on 3 & 4 October and will feature work 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. The cast will be will announced shortly.

An interactive outdoor arts installation, The Unforgotten, will also be presented by the venue, to commemorate three trailblazers of the Black community: Mary Seacole, Marsha P Johnson and Ulric Cross. This experience aims to further the Black Lives Matter conversation and has been created by Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey and Anna Fleischle.

If you are passing the theatre this month, you will see past people and productions projected onto the side of the building.

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