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| Yolanda Mercy |
Quarter Life Crisis THEATRE
(New Writing and Spoken Word)
Exploring heritage, expectations, generational guilt and asking what
does it means to be a grown up?
Written and Performed
by Yolanda Mercy
Directed by Jade Lewis
Following on from the success of
its Edinburgh Fringe run 2017, Quarter Life Crisis begins its first UK tour. The piece was
originally premiered at Underbelly, as part of their Untapped Season (which
supported four pieces of new theatre writing to endorse during the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe). She then went on to win the 2017 Underbelly Untapped Award.
Through Quarter Life Crisis Yolanda Mercy examines her own life and the
lives of the generations before her in a semi-autobiographical, painfully honest
piece about being in your mid-twenties all depicted through the relatable
character Alicia.
Alicia is a hot mess. She doesn't know what
she's doing with her life. Swiping left, swiping right to find the perfect
match. Even though she's a Londoner, born and bred, the scent of Lagos peppers
her existence in the ends. Everyone around her seems to know where they're
going in life, but she's trying to find ways to cheat growing up and keep her
16-25 railcard. What does it mean to be an adult, and when do you become one? Quarter Life Crisis mixes addictive baselines,
spoken word and audience participation.
Yolanda
Mercy said, ‘It
got to a point in my life where my cousin who is 10 days younger than me
announced that he was getting married. My close friend revealed she was having
a baby. But my biggest concern was How Can I keep my
young persons railcard. The more I looked around me it seemed that
everyone was adulting.”
Yolanda trained at the Brit
School, Laban and Central School of Speech and Drama. She was named Artist to Watch 2017 by the British
Council, is an Associate Artist at OvalHouse, part of the BBC London Voices
writers program and her writing has also been featured in Huffington Post.
@yolandamercy | #QuarterLifeCrisis
| www.yolandamercy.com
Running Time: 45 minutes | Suitable for
ages 14+ (contains audience participation and occasional swearing)
Company Information
Written
and Performed by
Yolanda Mercy Directed by Jade Lewis
Produced by Yolanda Mercy and Jade Lewis
Dramaturgy by Jules Haworth
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