Brexit play heading to Birmingham REP
In the days following the Brexit vote, a team of interviewers spoke to people around the country – from Leicester to Derry/Londonderry and Merthry Tydfil to Glasgow, to hear their views of the country and towns they live in, their lives, their future, and the referendum.
The opinions were honest, emotional, funny and sometimes extreme. Now, these people's views will be centre stage as part of a new play, My Country: A Work In Progress at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from May 16 to 20.
Watch the trailer here:
My Country; A Work In Progress is a new collaboration between Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate and Rufus Norris, artistic director at the National Theatre.
It is cleverly drawn from gripping interviews with people nationwide, aged from 9 to 97, whose opinions are interwoven with sound bites of speeches from party leaders.
Artistic Director of the National Theatre and former Kidderminster College student, Rufus Norris, said, "One of my ambitions for the National Theatre is to make it truly national and through collaboration, embrace the creativity and opinion around the UK.
"The Brexit vote unleashed a host of questions about our country, way beyond the issue of Britain's role in Europe. It articulated a deep disaffection. Those elements provoked a need and opportunity to create a piece of theatre that responds to that palpable sense of frustration and disillusionment. Art has always responded to what is happening now and it's what I hope we achieve with My Country."
