![]() ![]() ![]() “I saw Yen at the MCC Theater on a cheap ticket deal and I really didn’t know anything about the play,” Clements says. Its Australian debut, hosted by the Kings Cross Theatre and bAKEHOUSE, comes courtesy of Sydney indie outfit New Ghosts Theatre Company, whose artistic director Lucy Clements came across the play in 2017 during a self-funded theatre education jag in New York that involved seeing 43 On and Off-Broadway shows in three months. British writer Anna Jordan’s unflinchingly vivid Yen paints a picture of young men on the cusp of ferality: boys raised in poverty with an alcoholic and largely absent mother, unlimited access to online pornography and violent video games.Īwarded the UK’s Bruntwood Prize in 2013, Yen’s premiere season in Manchester was greeted with critical raves, which led to the play transferring to London’s Royal Court, where it received more of the same. ![]()
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