Our Generation is an undeniably ambitious undertaking and worthy of high admiration for how all the components work together as well as they do.
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Our Generation is an experiment that, though steered by some phenomenally assured performances, collapses under its own weight.
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This is the latest from verbatim theatre queen Alecky Blythe...When the acting is as good as it is here the result is a thrilling suspension of disbelief; we’re aware of the artifice but also experience it as authentic.
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Overall this is a terrific piece of work. It’s fine-grained, deftly edited, unshowily framed by Evans and set designer Vicki Mortimer to focus on the performers and the real-life stories they are telling.
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Still, if the running time could easily be cut by half, I haven’t seen such assured displays of youthful energy since this auditorium played host to Lee Hall’s magnificent teenage odyssey Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour six years ago.
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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.
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And if the teenagers’ resilience shines through, most heartening of all is the way this magnificent project honours the period of youth it captures on stage: a time of energy, passion, warmth and humour.
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But as a piece of theatre, it is heavy going, its sheer ambition also its greatest weakness. This is a generation that has had it especially tough...and their stories deserve a clearer airing.
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