The Wave
by Molly Taylor
Conceived by Roberta Zuric, Molly Taylor and the Almeida Young Company
Almeida Theatre at Rose Lipman Building, July 2019
1939. 143 million people in Italy and Germany live under fascism, controlled by dictators.
Their leaders are Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
1963. Milgram’s psychological experiment finds that 65% of participants will follow an authority’s order
and administer a lethal electric shock to an innocent stranger.
2019. 17 pupils in a London comprehensive participate in a project on collective identity.
What lies around the corner, no one predicts.
Written by Molly Taylor (Extinguished Things, Cacophony) and developed with the 14 –18 Almeida Young Company,
The Wave asks what happens when everything you thought you knew and trusted about yourself is challenged.
“Directed by Roberta Zuric, the play is energetic and dynamic...
The young performers are extraordinary: there isn’t a weak link in the chain mail.”
//Photography by Ali Wright