OUR GENERATION by Alecky Blythe
Daniel Evans directs a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre and the National Theatre to premiere in 2022
CFT Artistic Director Daniel Evans will direct a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre and the National Theatre in 2022, at the start of CFT’s 60th anniversary season.
Our Generation by Alecky Blythe isa new and extraordinary verbatim play which follows the lives of twelve young people from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as they evolve from children to adults.
From interviews gathered over a five-year period, we experience the heartache, the humour and the growing pains of twelve remarkable teenagers, as they navigate their families, their friendships, an exams fiasco and a global pandemic. Our Generation will provide a unique insight into growing up in modern Britain, seen through the eyes of those who are experiencing it right now.
Alecky Blythe wrote the acclaimed verbatim musical London Road, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2011 and later became a feature film. Our Generation will be Daniel Evans’s directorial debut at the National Theatre; as an actor, his work there included Cardiff East, Peter Pan, Troilus and Cressida, Candide and The Merchant of Venice.
Our Generation will open at the National Theatre’s Dorfman Theatre in February 2022 before playing at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre from April 2022.
Our Generation will have set design by Vicki Mortimer, costume design by Kinnetia Isidore, video design by Akhila Krishnan, lighting design by Zoe Spurr, sound design by Paul Arditti, movement direction by Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, and music composition, production & direction by DJ Walde.
Booking for the Chichester production will open in February 2022 when CFT’s full 60th anniversary season will be announced.