Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman, working for the London branch of an international firm of art-dealers, rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.
Based on the true facts of Vincent van Gogh's early life in London, Nicholas Wright's new play, Vincent in Brixton, is about the transforming effect of love, sex and artistic adventure on unformed talent. It traces the birth of genius.
A dramatization of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870sa period before he became a painter and one that changed him completely. Vincent develops a rapport with a widow twice his age, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair, only to be cruelly curtailed by the arrival of his fiercely puritan young sister. From the author of Cressida, Mrs. Klein, and the recent adaptation of Wedekinds Lulu.
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'One of the best new plays ever presented by the National Theatre' * Sunday Times * 'A brilliant portrait of the artist as a young man' * Guardian * 'Nicholas Wright has convincingly imagined himself into the life of the 20-year-old Vincent van Gogh... superlative... An evening to savour' * Evening Standard *
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Winner of Best New Play, Olivier Awards 2003.By the author of "Cressida" (performed in the West End and starring Michael Gambon) and "Mrs Klein". Wright is also the author of adaptations of "Naked" (starring Juliette Binoche) and "Lulu" (starring Anna Friel).
Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include: 8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2019); an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre, 2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (Royal & Derngate, Northampton, 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre, 2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011); The Reporter (National Theatre, 2007); a version of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin (National Theatre, 2006); an adaptation of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials (National Theatre, 2003-4); Vincent In Brixton (National Theatre, 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello's Naked (Almeida Theatre, 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End, 1988).
His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard Eyre.
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