Our Generation
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 7M, 8F
- ISBN: 9781839040658
"To be honest with you, before I went secondary school I thought that the kids they would be like really mature and like by the time I reached Year Ten I'd be fully mature and everything. And I'd lose my like funsense and stuff... But, I don't know if it's just my class in particular but we really haven't matured at all... I don't want to be the serious adult and have serious children and have serious future in a serious house and serious everything."
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18)
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary
Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who is -- or has ever been -- a teenager.
It was co-produced by the National Theatre, London, and Chichester Festival Theatre, and first performed in the Dorfman auditorium of the National Theatre in February 2022 before transferring to the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in April of that year, in a production directed by Daniel Evans.
Note for performers: The original audio recordings, which were used in rehearsal by the cast of the first professional production, are available to be used by other theatre companies performing the play. For more information, please contact our office.
REVIEWS:
"Extraordinary... shines a light on a generation dealt a spectacularly bad hand... a terrific piece of work."
Evening Standard
"Magnificent... masterful... will steal your heart."
The Guardian
"Dazzling... a beautiful and funny journey through twelve young people's lives... The dialogue in this extraordinary state-of-the-nation play is comic gold dust... Through a dynamic distilling of her ongoing encounters with these young people, Blythe and her team respect and explore each of them as individuals... It's a thrill to spend time inside these young people's lives; it's hard to imagine getting so close to these characters without the immersive documentary-style process that Blythe has honed over several plays... eye-opening, generous and brilliantly inventive."
Time Out
"Thrilling... a frank, fond tribute to the agony and ecstasy of generation Snapchat."
Daily Telegraph
"An extraordinary show... we grow to love these kids, fear for them, celebrate with them, laugh and cry with them."
BroadwayWorld
"Wise, beguiling, hilarious and gut-punchingly moving: a living portrait of adolescence, in all its overwhelming intensity... supremely lovable."
iNews
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 8F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting, Roles for Teens, Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: Very large cast possible, 100+ characters.
The play was created from interviews with children, parents and teachers from a broad demographic. Amateur companies should make their best effort to meet the casting requirements set out. I will leave it up to the judgment and sensitivity of those in charge as to whether it's appropriate for an actor to be cast in a part for which they are not an exact physical match, due to the lack of diversity within the group. I appreciate that perhaps the intended casting can only truly be achieved in professional productions when a wider pool of actors can be drawn from. However it's important that these issues are thought through carefully and discussed before embarking on the project.
Available Material
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Alecky Blythe's engrossing verbatim play tells the stories of a generation. Created from five years of interviews with twelve young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their teenage years as they journey into adulthood. |
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