How We Made It | Creating Verbatim Theatre in Our Generation | National Theatre

How do you make a verbatim piece of theatre? We spoke to writer Alecky Blythe (London Road), director Daniel Evans and their collectors about translating real lives and real words for the stage in Our Generation: www.nationalth...
Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.
Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who is - or has ever been - a teenager.
A co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre, running from 10 February to 9 April 2022 in the Dorfman theatre.
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[@NeeliAankhen]

London Road was one of my favorite plays of all time -- I live in NY and happened to be in London seeing shows and was so lucky to get to that one. I love verbatim theater. I've watched the movie a few times too. I hope I can get there for this! Something to look forward to. -- Virginia Kelley

[@gaberine123]

Loved London Road too! It's so cool!

[@NationalTheatre]

We hope you're able to come over to visit us :)

[@KeithRHuff]

Virginia, are you familiar with the Verbatim Performance Lab's work? Since you're in New York, they're based out of NYU Steinhardt. I suggest you check out their work if you love verbatim work.

[@butterflymoon6368]

Wait what? Can someone explain the connection to the magna carta?

[@eprohoda]

Nationa-good morning~Wow- splendid recording,

[@LostHatProductions]

Please please please run after April somewhere. It’s about people round the country so it should tour round the country, and not just die like London Road did (the film doesn’t count, it needs to be live on stage)

[@LostHatProductions]

I wrote this before it even opened, and I haven’t heard anything about it for month. I feel it is dead and I never had a chance to see it.

[@gregmusson2474]

An Alecky Blythe play at the RSC please Daniel

[@Robinson8491]

This looks very promising, and I love the idea. Hope it is million times better than Boyhood (the movie), which I thought completely sucked