Nadia Fall Unveils First Season at the Young Vic: Orton, Miller, Zeldin — and a Talking Tiger

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The Young Vic has announced its first season under the artistic direction of Nadia Fall — and it marks a confident return to classic drama, major names, and heavyweight performances.

Opening in September, the season kicks off with Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joe Orton’s razor-sharp 1964 black comedy. Fall herself will direct the production, with Tamsin Outhwaite and Daniel Cerqueira in the lead roles.

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This Christmas, audiences can look forward to the UK premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a surreal and haunting play by American playwright Rajiv Joseph, which was originally staged on Broadway with Robin Williams. At the Young Vic, the role of the sardonic tiger, roaming through the wreckage of post-Saddam Iraq, will be played by David Threlfall.

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Spring 2026 brings Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, a lesser-staged late work by the American titan, directed by Jordan Fein. And closing the season is the British premiere of CARE, a powerful new play by Alexander Zeldin about an elderly woman being moved into a care home — a raw and deeply humane story of ageing and survival.

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The theatre’s Maria stage will also be buzzing with new work. Kicking things off in September is Ohio, a personal and musical journey told through autobiographical performance. December will see The Museum of Austerity, an immersive exhibition exploring the lives of disabled people in the UK under austerity policies. And next June brings Sting, a savage satire about institutional collapse and modern-day witch hunts.

The first tickets go on sale on 19 May, with more released later this autumn.

Cover photo: Émilie Chen, © Young Vic 2025

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