CREATIVE DIGITAL PRODUCER
JULIA WALTER
PRODUCER FOR SCREEN
FREDDIE HILL
This 20-minute film offers a deeper exploration of the remarkable backstory behind Adrienne and Adam Kennedy’s play, Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?
Adrienne Kennedy’s autobiographical one-act play was told as an intimate (almost monologue) to her son Adam, and is a captivating and unsettling account of a young playwright striving to make her mark in a new world.
Produced in partnership with Chichester Festival Theatre, this film served as an additional digital insight for audiences. As an Act 2, or second part to the play, it was shown after every performance and aims to shed more light on both Adrienne Kennedy’s extraordinary life and the creative process behind bringing her story to the stage.
WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE
The process...
Collating archive assets was no mean feat. Listening, watching and reading hours and hours of content, both about Adrienne Kennedy and John Lennon's plays, we started to build a bigger and better picture of how this documentary would take shape.
For this film in particular, the in-camera interviews we produced with Rakie Ayola, Diyan Zora and Jack Benjamin, along with the online interview we recorded with Adam Kennedy, helped us to shape our narrative. The archive assets, such as audio, video and photo, get added later, and help to embellish moments within the film, and add greater depth and detail throughout.