THE TRIALS BY DAWN KING | SOUTHWARK YOUNG ENSEMBLE COMPANY 2025 | 28 – 30 Aug 2025
“Everyone lived like we did! Well…maybe not everyone. But…I wasn’t any worse than anyone else”
The near future. A jury of young people sit in judgement of the older generation for failing to deal with the catastrophe of climate change, deciding who should be punished for not having taken action sooner.
As the ones most affected by it, it surely makes sense that they should be the ones to decide the fate of individuals who could, and should, have done more. But as they start to deliberate, the question really becomes are they actually delivering justice, or just seeking revenge?
Writer: Dawn King
Director: Vicky Moran
Set and Costume Designer: Natalie Johnson
Director: Vicky Moran
Set and Costume Designer: Natalie Johnson
Lighting and Video Designer: Will Monks
Composer and Sound Designer: Fergus Carver
Stage Manager: Emma Langan
Assistant Director: Lilly Butcher
Cast: Syam Stewart, Evie Desheva, Scarlett Molyneux, Josie Surminski, Nina Amos, Emma Judge, Thea Walcott McKay, Anne-Elizabeth Sowah, Harry Japes, Rowan Miller, Rachel Greenwood, Dominique Vincent
+ Hywel Simons, Kacey Ainsworth Nancy Crane playing defendants.