Vincent in Brixton

Why Book? according to the Times, this is one the best plays ever presented at the NT! A major revival of Nicholas Wright’s Olivier Award-winning play. Directed by Georgia Green and starring Niamh Cusack.

“What I wanted was someday, somehow to be the cause of something remarkable.

Before the sunflowers, before the madness, before the fame, there was a quiet kitchen in South London.

It’s 1873, when Ursula’s modest boarding house is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a young lodger by the name of Vincent Van Gogh. As the household is thrown into chaos, the intimacy of daily life sparks something unexpected between them: longing, purpose and transformation.”