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Brook heads Young Vic line-up
By Louise Jury, Evening Standard 23.05.07
Fragments: the little-known Beckett plays will star Marcello Magni, left, and Jozef Houben
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Director Peter Brook heads an international line-up for the new season at the Young Vic, it was announced today.
Brook, 82, who was born in London but has worked in Paris for more than 30 years, will direct Fragments, five little-known short plays by Samuel Beckett, in September.
They will star Kathryn Hunter, Jozef Houben and Marcello Magni, a co-founder of the Theatre de Complicite theatre group.
Other highlights of the programme include the British premiere of The Investigation, a play about Auschwitz to be performed by a company of Rwandan actors only a decade after their own country's holocaust.
Actors from Cape Town will present the world premieres of South African versions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. After the success of Tobias And The Angel, a show starring local residents, the Young Vic is to stage another community production.
Ma Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink) will be loosely based on Alain Berliner's 1997 film about a little boy who longs to be a girl.
The Member Of The Wedding, a production of the Carson McCullers play that was a hit on Broadway nearly 60 years ago, and The Brothers Size, the European premiere of another American drama, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, complete the season.
The Young Vic re-opened in October last year after undergoing a £7 million redevelopment and was recently named London Building of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Vernon God Little, its adaptation of the Booker Prizewinning DBC Pierre novel, is to run for another two weeks, until 23 June, because of demand.
