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The return of Billie Piper’s Yerma, Juliet Stevenson in a “demanding” role as a recovering stroke patient, and a one-woman show about Nina Simone will be among highlights at the Young Vic this year.

Piper, named best actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her portrayal of a young woman shattered by her inability to have a child, is reuniting with the rest of the original cast of Yerma for a limited run at the Waterloo theatre this summer.

The production is based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s story but updated by director Simon Stone from the peasant villages of rural Spain to modern London.

Young Vic artistic director David Lan said: “It is like having a great painting by Lucian Freud, once you’ve had it up in the Tate for six months you don’t put it in the bin.”

He added that the intense nature of Piper’s performance had influenced the length of the run, which is from July 26 to August 31. “We are doing the most we thought we could achieve at that level,” he said.

Stevenson will appear in Wings, a play by US writer Arthur Kopit based on his experiences visiting his father, who had suffered a stroke.

Mr Lan said it would be “a demanding role” but he wanted to reunite Stevenson with director Natalie Abrahami after the pair worked together twice at the theatre on Beckett’s Happy Days. Wings premiered in New York in 1978.

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Other works this year include Nina, by Lewisham-born actress Josette Bushell-Mingo, which she performs with a live band.

The show, with the full title of Nina: A Story About Me & Nina Simone, brings Bushell-Mingo back from Sweden where she works with the country’s national touring theatre.

She was nominated for an Olivier award for her performance as Rafiki in The Lion King.

The Young Vic will also put on a “dark” version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which Mr Lan said would be true to what he said was “a perfect play”.

Australian actor Brendan Cowell, who plays Piper’s husband in Yerma, also takes the title role in a production of Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo.

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