Old vic welcomes Emma rice

Kryz1000, the references you make are to British companies but their best work has always fed off global figures; Littlewood and Brecht, Brook and Artaud etc. It's the same now, Icke and Van Hove, Emma Rice and Staniewski (and by extension, Bakhtin, folk culture and the carnivalesque), the debt we pay to European theatre is huge, partly because we remain more conservative than the continent and slow to pick up on the new.

for new British young companies, I'd suggest Barrel Organ and the Irish company Dead Centre as being interesting developments, cross media, Kate Tempest is a force of nature (pun intended)

To be honest, nothing is ever new, it is just work created by newer, younger people.