AND SO SAY ALL OF US

It's about the future; it's about leadership; it's about hope; it's about realistic gripping hands; it's about enterprise; it's about heroism; it's about who we are as a nation; it's about a profound reconnect between politics and the aspirations of ordinary, hard-working seven-to-thirteen-year-olds.

It's General Election day 2010 in Britain but there's a problem: not a single person voted anywhere in the country. Not one. It is constitutionally unprecedented and the finest minds in the Civil Service are struggling to find a way through this deeply embarrassing situation. Meanwhile, somewhere in Britain, Fran and Eddy are unhappy with their home; their next-door neighbours are pregnant, but she seems unwilling to give birth.

And So Say All of Us... is an elliptical commentary on British politics and culture, anatomising the oddness of the present and the fearfulness of the future. Written collaboratively by me, Linda McLean and Duncan Macmillan, it takes a panoramic look at the absurdities and deep yearnings of contemporary culture.

It was directed by Polly Thomas and starred Louisa Lytton, ​Tom Goodman-Hill, David Annen, Amelia Bullmore, Michael Begley, Effie Woods and Derek Riddell. Sound design was by Eloise Whitmore and the composer was Alice Trueman.

I'd worked with a lot of this company before: Louisa Lytton was wonderful in Emily Rising; David was Roland Barthes in Here's What I Did With My Body One Day; Alice Trueman composed the music for Girlfriend in a Coma; Eloise has been broadcast assistant and sound designer on several plays, and Polly's produced all of them.

It got what I think is meant to be a good review in the Telegraph.​