'But deep down, we all know the only thing I did wrong was be a girl who spoke up. A girl who refused to stay silent. And... I'm still not gonna stay silent, because this stuff is too important to keep ignoring.' When social media goes into a frenzy over pictures of a girl at a party, Louise's teacher lectures all the schoolgirls on taking more responsibility for their actions. Enraged that it's them getting reprimanded - and not the boys who took the pictures - Louise wages war on the school's systemic misogyny. But when she threatens popular boy Scott, risking his claim to the School Captain title, things escalate horribly; a website appears, objectifying the girls and shaming them for their actions. Natalie Mitchell's play explores everyday feminism, consent and the changing face of teenage sexuality in an online world. Is it always true that 'when they go low', we should go high? Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers rich opportunities for a large cast of all genders, with particularly strong roles for young women.

Ashley is sixteen. She's lived in Medway for fifteen years and six months. She has 2,354 leaflets on sexual health. She knows exactly how many she has, because she's counted them 1,582 times... At 7.48 p.m. tonight, she will have been going out with Ollie for exactly three months, which he thinks means it's time to take their relationship to the next level; especially given her position as their school's resident expert on sexual health. But what if counting leaflets can't protect Ashley from getting hurt when she decides to take her biggest risk yet? Natalie Mitchell's play Germ Free Adolescent is a fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway? It received its first full production at The Bunker, London, in October 2019, having previously toured Kent where the play was researched and developed with young people, youth workers and mental-health services.

Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and - particularly in the case of Connections - who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays offer young performers an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study. From friends building bridges and siblings breaking down walls; girls making their voice heard and boys searching for home; and not forgetting a band of unlikely action heroes taking control of the weather. The anthology contains nine play scripts along with imaginative production notes and exercises, as well as a short introduction to the writing process for the tenth Connections play [ BLANK ] by Alice Birch. 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.

Natalie Mitchell's Amazon Best Seller latest book "Eat Healthy Be Sexy" will clearly resonate with her readers as it is written with passion, penned with feeling and is brimming with a lot of important factual advice and knowledge. The title speaks to the truth that your health and how you feel are intertwined more than many people realize. As Ms. Mitchell aptly puts it, "Sexy has no expiration date " "Eat Healthy, Be Sexy" is a must read for all people who want to become effectively knowledgeable about how to eat their way to good health for life and how to avoid the bad stuff along the way. Ms. Mitchell brings to the book a refreshing and motivating perspective on the merits of eating healthy and why this will influence and better readers lives from their very core and spirit all the way through to the way they look, think and act as they go about living and enjoying life. Ms. Mitchell's heartfelt book delivers this attractive guidance with much practical self-help support that is relevant to everyone, regardless of age or status. With lots of factual information and food charts interspersed with valuable motivational passages, the book contains clear guidelines for readers to create and maintain a healthy bodily environment for life and one in which disease cannot thrive. While the information itself is easy to understand, the Author's clear message is that we, as individuals, can exercise significant control over our health destiny. Natalie Mitchell is an international consulting Nutritionist specializing in life coaching for her clients through nutrition knowledge tailored for the needs of the human body as well as using nutrition as the spring board for powerful, mental messages. In "Eat Healthy, Be Sexy" Ms. Mitchell shares her extensive knowledge and understanding of the extraordinary power of diet and nutrition in shaping our lives life in all its facets, backed up with frequent reference to research papers from both mainstream and alternative medical sources.