Close to Waterloo Station, down The Cut off Waterloo Road, the Young Vic building was completed in 1970. It was meant to be a temporary structure, lasting perhaps five years, but it became permanent.
It seems likely that this venue would have been an ideal audition venue for new productions, whether they would be housed in that theatre, or elsewhere. The Young Vic is central, within easy access to transport, and actively engaging for young aspiring actors.
It didn’t look like much when it was created out of an old butcher shop and the open space of a World War II bomb site, and it doesn’t look like that much today. But it has been the basis of over fifty years of theatrical productions new and old, as recounted in its recently posted history in photographs.
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