Classroom Chronicles

29 Oct 2026

A Steven Kavuma and Brit Boys Production in partnership with Kickers and in association with The BRIT School In collaboration with Lorraine Woodley-Bitmead

NEW PLAY ABOUT BLACK BOYHOOD, FRIENDSHIP AND FREEDOM TO PLAY AT THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY THIS OCTOBER

Classroom Chronicles turns the isolation room — a space usually associated with punishment and exclusion into a place of refuge, comedy and self-invention. Black Caribbean and Black African boys remain among the most excluded groups in English schools, and the play sets that statistic aside to ask a simpler question: what do these boys talk about when no adult is listening? The result is a portrait of four friends who are funny, tender, complicated and whole.

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
The cast is: Mahmood Akinsemoyin as Olanrewaju, Frederick Konneh as Ahmed, Nana Peprah-Mensah as Marfo, and Kyan Rowe as Zachary.
Classroom Chronicles is devised by the company and directed and co-dramaturged by Steven Kavuma, with collaborator, movement director and co-dramaturge Lorraine Woodley-Bitmead, musical director Ty Lowe, sound designer Marie Zschommler, costume designer and stylist Maame Atuah, and co-producer Moesha Francis.