Anyone planning to stream #TheNewTomorrow from home today? 🙋 Here are some tips on how to get the full Young Vic experience... 🏠 [THREAD] Treat yourself to some home-made ice-cold tap water infused with mint leaves!

Water🥤 + Mint🌿 = Deliciousness😋

It has actually been described as 'the poshest water I've ever had'. True story.

#PoshestWaterIveEverHad

It's October 3rd! 📅

We're ready to welcome back our first audience in SEVEN MONTHS! How excited are we?

THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST

#MeanGirlsDay We would have liked some better weather, in fact, there is a 30% chance that it's already raining ☔️

#MeanGirlsDay #TheNewTomorrow

The Black British Theatre Award nominations were announced today (@theBBTAs). The ceremony will take place at the Young Vic next month and will be broadcast for free on @SkyArts in late October. 🤩

We’re excited to have 5 nominations this year…. 👇 For Death of A Salesman, our co-production with @_elliottharper, @cindytolan1

Best Production of a play, Best Supporting Male actor in a play for Arinzé Kene

IT'S OUR 50TH BIRTHDAY! 🥳 #YV50

Today marks 50 years since we first opened our doors & what a better way to celebrate this milestone than by sharing with you our brand-new year-long programme of work entitled #WeAreTheNewTide

Check out this thread for more info 👇 First up, our 50th Birthday Projections 📽

Starting tonight, each evening the front of our building will become a giant canvas, illuminated by a video projection by @duncanjmclean, celebrating the people & productions who have contributed to our history over the last 5 decades.

If you, like us, are missing the Young Vic today here are a few things you can try at home to get ready for the #NationalTheatreAtHome premiere of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE tonight [Queue the Twitter thread 👇] Awkwardly perch next to a family member on the same kitchen table as if they were strangers sitting at @The_Cut_Bar. Make small talk. Get to know them. Become friends.

We've added two new open-access workshops to our list of #DirectorsProgram activity coming up:

22 May: Class and Coronavirus - Part 2
26 May: East Asian Theatremakers Discussion Group

Find out more here
youngvic.org/blog/directors… Class and Coronavirus - Part 2
Fri 22 May
2pm- 4.30pm

Directors @catshoob & @StefODriscoll are hosting a second informal get together for creatives who identify as working class, benefit class, underclass or criminal class to talk positive action.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Our remote playwriting course #WriteFromHome - run by @YVTakingPart - took place over 4 weeks last month, w/ online guest workshops & weekly resource packs.

Here's a series of short clips from our online workshop w/ playwright Matilda Ibini (@AstroMinx) ✏️

[THREAD] 👇 'Is a play without any conflict any good?'

@AstroMinx
@YVTakingPart
#WriteFromHome✍️

📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣

We're thrilled that our friends at @NationalTheatre will be streaming our acclaimed 2014 co-production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE from 21 May for one week as part of #NationalTheatreAtHome🤩

👉 YoungVic.org/StreetcarAtHome

https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre/status/1258320667297984512

This electrifying production of Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece remains the fastest-selling show in YV history

@GillianA➡️Blanche DuBois
@VanessaKirby ➡️Stella
Ben Foster➡️Stanley

📅 From 7pm on Thu 21/5 to 28/5
👉 YoungVic.org/StreetcarAtHome

#NationalTheatreAtHome

✨This evening our @YVTakingPart team is hosting our 2nd #NeighbourhoodVoices session over Zoom, this is our 1st Guest Session & the special guest is none other than @kwamekweiarmah #NeighbourhoodVoices is @YVTakingPart's free intensive playwrighting programme 'for 1st time writers, emerging writers & those who didn't realise they were a writer' ✏️

Today we're taking you back to @YVTakingPart's beautiful production of #CarnationForASong, written & directed by @_MeganCronin with music & lyrics by @Joseph_Atkins. This moving musical was created as a community response to our production of #FunHome & explores stories of LGBQ Londoners, all aged 50, featuring original songs & text directly inspired by their experiences.

Are you looking to work on your writing skills? ✏️
Over the next 4 weeks our brilliant @YVTakingPart team will share with you handy #WriteFromHome tips, resources & exercises to help bring your ideas onto the page, starting from today. #WriteFromHome Exercise #1 ✏️

⌛ Set a timer for 5mins
✍Write whatever comes to mind starting with: ‘Today I am...’

Don’t think about it too much & don’t worry about sticking to the topic - follow wherever it takes you. We’d love to see what you come up with! Comment below 👇

They say Shakespeare probably wrote King Lear & Macbeth in quarantine, so we started wondering, 'What would the Bard write at home today?' 🤔

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you: #SociallyDistancedShakespeare, a thread 🎭 Twelfth Night in Self-Isolation🌙

'O Mistress mine where are you roaming? No, seriously, stay indoors' 🏠

#SociallyDistancedShakespeare #QuarantinePlays

Today is #WorldTheatreDay 🎭, celebrating the people and organisations who make theatre happen. As you know, this is a period of huge uncertainty for the industry and we'd like to give a shout-out to everyone who has reached out in the last week to show their support ♥️ (1/7) Our building may be closed but our core mission is about gathering people and we are going to continue to do that even if we can’t do it physically anymore.

Here's a list of ways to support your favourite theatres on #WorldTheatreDay while #StayingatHome 🏠 (2/7)

Apologies for the sound issues, we'll be back up and running in no time! #YVIDemystify We're LIVE again, watch it here 📺👉facebook.com/youngvictheatr… #YVIDemystify

We're delighted that our co-production of Death of a Salesman has been nominated for five @OlivierAwards
including Best Revival. Congratulations to everyone involved and to all the nominees! 👏 #OlivierAwards @OlivierAwards @SalesmanWestEnd @_elliottharper @cindytolan1 Congratulations to @WendellPierce on his Best Actor nomination 👏👏👏 #OlivierAwards #DeathOfASalesman

Calling all theatre makers! You can now book for #YVIDemystify. Don't miss this free series of events for theatre creators in partnership with industry leaders.👉 bit.ly/36dyLJe First up: Breaking Down The Doors in partnership with @JerwoodArts on 23 Jan, which looks at innovative ways into forging a creative career. With speakers @ChrisSonnex & @Excalibah
youngvic.org/whats-on/break…

'It's a deep privilege to work with @BlackfriarsSett @Certitude @ThamesReach. Neighbourhood Theatre is so important to us because at its heart it has the power to unlock creative potential in all kinds of people in our boroughs' YV Exec Director Despina Tsatsas on #TwentyTwenty @BlackfriarsSett @Certitude @ThamesReach @Da_Spinna @YVTakingPart 'I know we talk a lot about working with and for our community, because it means so much to us. This initiative truly is walking the walk. I am mad excited that you are all in the house to launch #TwentyTwenty' - YV AD @kwamekweiarmah

We’re excited to announce plans for two @YVTakingPart projects for 2020:

📢 Me for the World, a production by Roma and Irish traveller communities in London

📢 Freedom Project, in co-production with @LeedsPlayhouse, made with refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds and London Me for the World is a new production written by @MollyHopeTaylor and dir by @Ali_Pidsley.

A celebration of the identity performed by young people from Roma & Irish Traveller communities across London.

👉🏾youngvic.org/whats-on/me-fo…

Today we’re thrilled to announce plans for two major Taking Part initiatives made for and with our local community.

🙌 YV Unpacked returns with local tour of 'She Ventures and He Wins'

🙌 TWENTY TWENTY - a year long creative project with 3 extraordinary local organisations YV Unpacked returns this December with Ariadne’s She Ventures and He Wins directed by @sashamdavies, with musical direction & original composition by @Joseph_Atkins, and a cast including Robert Jackson, @koruptkabuki, @BoadiceaR, Caleb Roberts, @ElexiWalker and @ArthurWilson_.

⚡ PUBLIC BOOKING IS NOW OPEN ⚡

👉 @CushJumbo as Hamlet
👉 Ruth Negga in Portia Coughlan
👉 A radical new take on Ibsen by @stefsmith
👉 A House Music Opera by @nmonford

Book tickets now from just £10
youngvic.org/whats-on Nora: A Doll’s House. This radical new version of Ibsen’s classic by @stefsmith is a co-pro w/ @citizenstheatre following a hugely acclaimed run in Glasgow. Directed by Elizabeth Freestone.

6 Feb - 21 Mar #YV2020⚡
BOOK NOW: youngvic.org/whats-on/nora-…

Photo by @mihaelabodlovic

Take your first look inside the #YVTree rehearsal room before its world premiere in just over 2 weeks.

@idriselba and @kwamekweiarmah's electrifying immersive new blend of drama, music and dance follows one man’s journey into the heart and soul of contemporary South Africa. With music inspired by Elba’s album 'Mi Mandela', Tree is an exhilarating show about identity, family and belonging, seen through the eyes of one man on the toughest journey of his life.