The production will run at the Young Vic Theatre from the 6th to the 17th May.
The Young Vic Theatre has announced that that Francesca Moody Productions, the
Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, will present Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree, in association with the Young Vic this May.
Written, performed and co-directed by Tim Crouch, the play features a different
guest artist in every performance, who has neither seen nor read the play before. Among those set to take part during this run include: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Michelle Terry, Luke Thompson, Russell Tovey and Indira Varma.
A father loses his daughter in a car accident. The driver of the car that killed her is a stage hypnotist. The two men meet for the first time when the father volunteers for the hypnotist’s act. What follows is a live theatrical experience like no other – a bold and absurdly comic story of loss, suggestion and the power of the mind.
An Oak Tree returns to the stage to celebrate the play’s 20th anniversary. Since premiering in 2005, over 350 different guest artists including Frances McDormand,
Geoffrey Rush, Sharon D Clarke, Alanis Morrissette, Sophie Okonedo and Peter
Dinklage have appeared in the play.
The show is also co-directed by Karl James and Andy Smith with the play also featuring music by Peter Gill.
Talking about the news, Tim Crouch said: “Twenty years since that room above a pub and the laboratory is the Young Vic, a theatre that has consistently proved its devotion to the new; a theatre that has developed an audience that is open and enquiring and engaged. I’m thrilled to see what happens to the experiment there. I’m thrilled to meet actors in the moment of performance. Actors I’ve never met in a play they’ve never met. Meeting an audience for one time only.”
The Young Vic’s 2025/26 Season, the inaugural programme under new Artistic Director Nadia Fall, will be announced later this Spring.
Public booking for the show is set to open on the 27th January.