Overview

• Amber Heard marks her return to acting with her casting in Jeremy O. Harris’s Spirit of the People following the birth of her twins in May.
• Brandon Flynn and Lío Mehiel complete the newest additions to the ensemble alongside Tony Award nominees Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer.
• Spirit of the People confronts “uncomfortable truths about land and what it means to destroy it” and challenges Harris with its use of prose and Spanish.
• Artistic decisions for the 71st festival are overseen by the Creative Collective, led by Jeremy O. Harris, Kaia Gerber, Alyssa Reeder, Alex Stoclet and Christopher Rudd.
• Billed as W71, the programme features Tennessee Williams revivals Camino Real and Not About Nightingales alongside original works like Ahamefule J. Oluo’s The Things Around Us and Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s Many Happy Returns.