Vernon God Little
From: Thursday, 27th January 2011
To: Saturday, 12 March 2011
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Synopsis
When his best friend massacres his whole class then turns the gun on himself, Vernon is the only one left standing. As fingers start to point the hapless, cynical and gloriously unlucky Vernon is suddenly at the centre of Texan small town madness. Faced with fame hungry imposters, desperate middle aged women and the town's remembrance hoedown, the only thing left to do is run...
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 8 February 2011
Rufus Norris’s tremendous 2007 production of Vernon God Little returns to the Young Vic with a mostly new cast but identical energy and bravura in its hilarious portrait of redneck America on the loose.
DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize-winning novel is made to look obvious stage material in Tanya Ronder’s utterly faithful but ingenious adaptation, while Norris and designer Ian MacNeil create a world of small town bigotry, suburban excess, hootenanny hot-gospelling and sexual licentiousness in a non-stop staging of scenery on castor wheels and flying television screens.
The cut-out frames are symbolic: young teenaged Vernon has indeed been “framed” as an unwitting accessory in a high school massacre; he has a friend in Jesus (Luke Brady) who killed sixteen other kids, then blew his brains out and now haunts the action with his guitar and tuneful melancholy.
Joseph Drake makes a remarkable stage debut as V...
Cast
Luke Brady (Jesus)
Clare Burt (Mom)
Danny Cerqueira (Lasalle)
Peter De Jersey (Lally)
Joseph Drake (Vernon)
Johnnie Fiori (Pam)
Lily James (Ella/Taylor)
Penny Layden (Vaine/Leona/Team Leader)
Nathan Osgood (Sheriff Pokorney)
Duncan Wisbey (Abdini)
Creative
DBC Pierre (Author)
Young Vic (Producer)
Tanya Ronder (Adaptation)
Rufus Norris (Director)
Lian MacNeil (Design)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Rich Walsh (Sound)
Lizzi Gee (Choreographer)
Nicky Gillibrand (Costume)
Phil Bateman (Musical Director)
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