Playing in Parliament
'I hope to help bridge the gap between young people’s lived experiences and the spaces where decisions about their futures are made.'
Generation FOMO is a verbatim play created from interviews conducted by Isabelle Defaut, Artistic Director of Portrait Theatre, Graduate Theatre Company with the Drama Dept at Kent.
The research and development of Generation FOMO was commissioned by our Outreach and Widening Participation team.
Portrait Theatre - a Resident Theatre company at the University of Kent, presented the first development phase with a script in hand performance in 2024 and is currently touring schools.
Cast list - Ashton Phillips, Brooke Bettey, Chris Gradwell, Claudia Gregory, Emma Wedge, Rebecca Millar.
Writer and Director - Isabelle Defaut
Movement Director - Dylan Poirot Canton
Producers - Portrait Theatre
The Social Experiment, research run by Dr Lindsey Cameron and Dr Katie Goodbun at Kent’s School of Psychology asks students and their headteachers to swap their smartphones for dumbphones to see if they can they last a week. BBC met staff and students at the Canterbury Academy to find out more.
Expert comment
Young people’s insights and ideas for solving societal problems are crucial for shaping future mental health policies and services, and we need to listen.
Dominic King from BBC Radio Kent interviews Generation FOMO creator Isabelle Defaut about her inspiration and hopes for the project.
