Teenagers have had a rough go of it recently, and Alecky Blythe’s verbatim epic Our Generation, assembled from over 600 hours of interviews with 12 adolescents over the last five years, makes an ambitious attempt to capture some ineffable sense of what it means to be young in Britain.
Stories span from Birmingham to Glasgow, from Belfast to South London. There’s the brash, celebrity-obsessed siblings Ayesha and Ali, whose family is rocked by tragedy; the privately educated Emily, who’s preoccupied with becoming head of house; and confident, popular Annabella, who struggles with a turbulent relationship with her mother.
