Writers’ Room: My Generation
Part of the Writers' Room Festival.
Written by Paul McNally.
“The 70s was sh*t, the 80s was sh*t with fancy clothes, the 90s was sh*t again and since then all there’s been is X Factor, auto-tuning and Ed Sheeran. I think I’ll stick with the mid-60s psychedelia.”
When troubled teenager Mike dies by suicide at the end of the 60s, his young friends gather for his funeral. Many years later, when they reunite for the funeral of another friend, they find Mike’s death has unforeseen consequences in 2025. Much older and not much wiser, they must confront the fallout from bad decisions they made in their teens, 50 years ago.
Paul McNally’s My Generation is a funny and nostalgic exploration of 1960s hippies struggling to come to terms with the past and make sense of the present.
My Generation was developed as part of the Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room Advanced Playwriting course.
Contains themes on suicide.
Paul McNally bio
Paul graduated with an MA in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway in 2011, receiving a Distinction, and for which he was awarded the David Lean Scholarship by the David Lean Foundation. He’s written shorts and TV and feature scripts (two of which have been optioned) and radio plays including Rocket Science for the BBC’s 7th Dimension series. A 20-min short, Hello Sunshine, garnered more than 30 film festival Official Selections. (Cast features Lysette Anthony, Sara Stewart and Simon Paisley-Day). He’s had work performed at the Arden Theatre, the Marlowe Studio, the Union Theatre and Barons Court Theatre in London.