Windrush Generations
as part of NT Connections Festival 2024This is a play about the British Isles, its past and its present.
Set in a senior common room, in a prominent university, a group of first year undergraduates are troubled, not by the weight of their workload, but by a ‘noisy’ ghost. So they do what any group self-respecting and intelligent university students would do in such a situation – they get out the ouija board to confront their spiritual irritant and lay them to rest – only to be confronted by the full weight of Britain’s colonial past – in all its gory glory.
However, if you think you know about British history, Empire, slavery, economics, racism and humanity, then this play might get you to think again. As the planch on the ouija board skates from letter to letter at an ever-increasing breakneck speed, the students are catapulted through space and time, witnessing the injustices, incongruities and inhumanity of the past.
This is a smorgasbord of genres and styles. Fusing naturalism, with physical theatre, spoken word, absurdism, poetry and direct address – this is event theatre that whips along with the grace, pace and hypnotic magnetism of a hurricane.
Content warning: this production contains strong and graphic language including: racially abusive language – including the ‘N word’, language describing the racially motivated abuse of power and violations and attacks, references to colonialism, references to genocide, references to Human Rights Abuse and allusions to gun violence.