Review: The Village

The Village was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in London by the Almeida Young Company. The Almeida are a company that want to take risks to ‘provoke, inspire and surprise’ their audiences defining theatre as ‘an essential force in an increasingly fragmented society.’

In a generation where young people are let down, schools are deteriorating, the NHS is a disaster and the planet is doomed it feels like the powers that be just don't care. A group of teenagers, tired of the system, aim to create their own utopian future. The Youth for Today begin to protest and cause civil unrest forcing the Prime Minister to agree to a budget of one hundred million pounds a year to pilot the Youth Emancipation Programme. The young people are allowed to create their own society, but they have to agree that it will be reviewed in two years, the population will be capped at five thousand and it must all be up and running in two months or they will all be sent to ‘juvie’ for delinquent behaviour.