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.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/our-generation 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. -- Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/NationalTheatre Sign up to our monthly newsletter: National Theatre TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@nationaltheatre National Theatre Twitter: twitter.com/NationalTheatre National Theatre Facebook: www.facebook.com/nationaltheatre National Theatre Instagram: www.instagram.com/nationaltheatre National Theatre Live Twitter: twitter.com/NTLive National Theatre Live Facebook: www.facebook.com/ntlive -- At the National Theatre in London, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone. National Theatre Live broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas in the UK and around the world.

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