Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed 2011 musical '' London Road''.Profile
/ref> Her first play ''Come Out Eli'' won a

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. ''The Girlfriend Experience'' premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in 2009. ''Do We Look Like Refugees?'' won a Fringe First Award at the 2010

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. '' London Road'' opened at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in 2011 to widespread acclaim. It was named Best Musical at the Critics' Circle Awards and transferred to the National's larger Olivier stage in 2012. Her subsequent play, ''Have I Been All My Life?'', opened at the

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in April 2012. In other work, Blythe took part in

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's production of ''Decade'' at St Katherine's Docks. She wrote and co-directed a

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documentary on the

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. She is also working on a film script. Blythe is best known for her pioneering work in

verbatim theatre Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering ...

. Her theatre company Recorded Delivery was set up in 2003 to advance this branch of theatre. In 2014, Blythe's

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was produced at the

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. Blythe acted as a version of herself, and the cast included

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and

Imogen Stubbs Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer. Her first leading part was in '' Privileged'' (1982), followed by '' A Summer Story'' (1988). Her first play, '' We Happy Few'', was produced in 2004. In 2008 she joined ...

. In June 2021, the National Theatre announced that it would stage a co-production of ''Our Generation'' with

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early in 2022, a work based on interviews about the lives of 12 young British people, directed by the latter's artistic director Daniel Evans. The interviews took place over a period of 5 years and the 12 young people from across the UK including Belfast, Birmingham, East of England, Glasgow, London and North Wales.

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