When This Is Over is a play in which young people tell the stories of their lives. It’s about what’s happened to them in the past, who they are right now, and who they want to be in the future. It’s about those pivotal moments that change your life forever, told at a time when world leaders are deciding the future of the planet. This brand-new and unique play is about possibility, hope and the power of stories, told by teenagers standing on the brink of an uncertain future.
It’s not a play specifically about Covid, or the Climate Emergency, but about the young people who are living through and negotiating the impacts of both. We want to capture and amplify the stories of those whose futures depend on the success of the Glasgow climate summit, at a time which is proving particularly difficult for young people, piling disruptions to education and uncertain futures onto the pre- existing challenges of being a teenager.

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We’ve worked with the Company of Teens to create a piece based on the stories they want to tell about the world they live in, and how they see their futures. We hope it will capture a moment in time in these young peoples’ lives and what it was like living in St Albans as a teenager in 2021. The piece merges live and recorded material, all created in collaboration with the young people in the Company.

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"This is a play where every young person has a space where their voice, ideas and enthusiasm can be heard."

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Nominated for the Adjuicators Choice Award for 'sheer audacity' at the Welwyn Youth Drama Festival