National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new
plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK
and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights,
the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional
theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production
- from costume and set design to stage management and marketing
campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays
and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young
people each year. This anthology brings together 9 new plays by
some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists
alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for
schools and youth groups. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola
Adebayo This is a play about the British Isles, its past and its
present. Set in a senior common room, in a prominent university, a
group of 1st year undergraduates are troubled, not by the weight of
their workload, but by a 'noisy' ghost. So they do what any group
self-respecting and intelligent university students would do in
such a situation - they get out the Ouija Board to confront their
spiritual irritant and lay them to rest - only to be confronted by
the full weight of Britain's colonial past - in all its gory glory.
Fusing naturalism, with physical theatre, spoken-word, absurdism,
poetry and direct address - this is event-theatre that whips along
with the grace, pace and hypnotic magnetism of a hurricane. Tuesday
by Alison Carr Tuesday is light, playful and nuanced in tone. And a
little bit sci-fi. The play centres on an ordinary Tuesday that
suddenly turns very weird indeed when a tear rips across the sky
over the school yard. The play touches on themes of friendship,
sibling love, family, identity, grief, bullying, loneliness and
responsibility. And in the process we might just learn something
about ourselves as well as some astronomical theories of the
multiverse! A series of public apologies (in response to an
unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly
This satirical play is heightened in its naturalism, in its
seriousness, in its parody and piercing in its interrogation of how
our attempts to define ourselves in public are shaped by the fear
of saying the wrong thing. Presented quite literally as a series of
public apologies this play is spacious, flexible and welcoming of
inventive and imaginative interpretation as each iteration spirals
inevitably to its absurdist core. This is a play on words, on
convention, on manners, on institutions, on order, online and on
point. THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann THE IT is a play about a
teenage girl who has something growing inside her. She doesn't know
what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands in her body.
It starts in her stomach, but quickly outgrows that, until
eventually ittakes over the entirety of her insides. It has claws.
She feels them. Presented in the style of a direct to camera
documentary, this is a darkly comic state of the nation play
exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within, written
very specifically for today. The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor
The Marxist in Heaven is a play that does exactly what its title
page says it's going to do. The eponymous protagonist 'wakes up' in
paradise and once they get over the shock of this fundamental
contradiction of everything they believe in.....they get straight
back to work....and continue their lifelong struggle for equality
and fairness for all....even in death. Funny, playful, provocative,
pertinent and jam-packed with discourse, disputes, deities and
disco dancing by the bucketful, this upbeat buoyant allegory shines
its holy light on globalization and asks the salient questions -
who are we and what are we doing to ourselves?.....and what
conditioner do you use on your hair? Look Up by Andrew Muir Look Up
plunges us into a world free from adult intervention, supervision
and protection. It's about seeking the truth for yourself and
finding the space to find and be yourself. Nine young people are
creating new rules for what they hope will be a new and brighter
future full of hope in a world in which they can trust again. Each
one of them is unique, original and defiantly individual, break
into an abandoned building and set about claiming the space,
because that is what they do. They have rituals, they have rules,
together they are a tribe, they have faith in themselves....and
nothing and no one else. They are the future, unless the real world
catches up with them and then all they can hope for is that they
don't crash and burn like the adults they ran away from in the
first place. Crusaders by Frances Poet A group of teens gather to
take their French exam but none of them will step into the exam
hall. Because Kyle has had a vision and he'll use anything, even
miracles, to ensure his classmates accompany him. Together they
have just seven days to save themselves, save the world and be the
future. And Kyle is not the only one who has had the dream. All
across the globe, from Azerbaijan to Zambia, children are dreaming
and urging their peers to follow them to the promised land. Who
will follow? Who will lead? Who will make it? Witches Can't Be
Burned by Silva Semerciyan St. Paul's have won the schools Playfest
competition, three years in a row, by selecting recognised classics
from the canon and producing them at an exceptionally high level,
it's a tried and trusted formula. With straight A's student and
drama freak, Anuka cast as Abigail Williams in The Crucible by
Arthur Miller, the school seem to be well on course for another
triumph, which would be a record. However, as rehearsals gain
momentum, Anuka has an epiphany. An experience resulting in her
asking searching questions surrounding the text, the depiction and
perception of female characters, the meaning of loyalty, and the
values and traditions underpinning the very foundations of the
school. Thus, the scene is set for a confrontation of epic
proportions as Anuka seeks to break with tradition, before
tradition breaks her and all young women like her and reality
begins to take on the ominous hue of Miller's fictionalized Salem.
Dungeness by Chris Thompson . In a remote part of the UK, where
nothing ever happens, a group of teenagers share a safe house for
LGBT+ young people. While their shared home welcomes difference, it
can be tricky for self-appointed group leader Birdie to keep the
peace. The group must decide how they want to commemorate an attack
that happened to LGBT+ people, in a country far away. How do you
take to the streets and protest if you're not ready to tell the
world who you are? If you're invisible, does your voice still
count? A play about love, commemoration and protest.
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