## Verified facts
The supplied evidence reports that *The Pelicot Trial*, created by Swiss director and playwright Milo Rau, is scheduled to receive its UK premiere at London County Hall on November 30. The one-off performance is expected to use trial accounts, police files, social commentary and psychiatric reports relating to the men prosecuted in the case. It is described as involving 30 actors and public figures and as part of the Young Vic Theatre’s final shows of its 2026/27 season.
The evidence states that Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping Gisèle Pelicot and enabling other men to rape her while she was unconscious. It also states that 50 men were found guilty of rape or sexual offences following a trial in Avignon, France, which ended in December 2024. Gisèle Pelicot waived her right to anonymity and argued that shame should rest with her abusers rather than with her.
The Young Vic’s artistic director and chief executive, Nadia Fall, is quoted describing Rau’s work as testimonial and focused on bearing witness to Pelicot’s story. The evidence also lists other productions in the theatre’s announced season, including *Dissent*, *What’s the F******Point?*, *Eulogy* and a reimagining of Kafka’s *A Hunger Artist*. Tickets are reported to go on general sale on October 7.
## Interpretation
The production’s use of documentary and legal materials places the Pelicot case at the centre of a theatre-making approach concerned with testimony, public memory and the representation of sexual violence. Its presentation outside the Young Vic’s main theatre, at County Hall, may be intended to give the event a civic or public-hearing character; this is an interpretation of the venue choice, not an explicitly stated purpose in the evidence.
The wider season, as described, combines politically and socially focused drama with satire, surreal performance and literary adaptation. This suggests a programme interested in questions of power, institutions, identity and public responsibility, although the supplied evidence does not provide the theatre’s full curatorial rationale.
## Uncertainty
The evidence comes from a single supplied report and does not include independent confirmation of the premiere, cast, venue arrangements or ticket-sale date. The schedule and production details may therefore change. The report refers to 51 men being prosecuted and 50 being found guilty, but does not explain the legal outcome for the remaining defendant. It also uses both “Gisele” in the working title and “Gisèle” in the body; the latter spelling is used here because it appears in the supplied report’s substantive text.
