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Tue 19 May from 12 noon

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Thu 21 May from 12 noon

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Fri 22 May from 12 noon

Lyndhurst Memories is an original ensemble theatre piece written by Birmingham-based artist CJ Lloyd Webley, exploring memory, community and the changing social landscape of the former Lyndhurst Estate in Erdington.

Originally commissioned by Midlands Arts Centre in 2025, the project draws on lived experience, oral history and personal reflection to examine what happens when communities are reshaped by regeneration, stigma and displacement. Set against the backdrop of the Lyndhurst Estate, the piece follows overlapping voices and fragmented memories from residents navigating friendship, youth culture, family life and the realities of social change in Birmingham.

Blending humour, warmth and moments of tension, Lyndhurst Memories captures the energy, contradictions and resilience of growing up on the estate, while exploring wider themes of belonging, identity and loss. Through an ensemble of interconnected voices, the work attempts to reconstruct a disappearing world, reflecting on how communities are remembered, represented and often misunderstood from the outside. The piece combines naturalistic dialogue with moments of stylised movement, overlapping narration and direct audience address, creating a theatrical language that sits between personal testimony and shared remembrance.

Presented as part of Rep Rising, this next stage of development will focus on deepening the historical and social context of the work while refining its structure, pacing and staging through further ensemble development and live audience engagement. This iteration of the project is an opportunity to test how the work continues to evolve in front of an audience, helping shape its next phase towards a future full production, with ambitions to tour across Birmingham, the West Midlands and nationally.

Alongside its theatrical development, Lyndhurst Memories also sits within a wider ambition to explore immersive and digital storytelling. Future plans include the integration of sound, projection and virtual environments to further explore how memory and place can be experienced collectively through performance.