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A01=Laura Lomas
A01=Nell Leyshon
A01=Rob Drummond
A01=Tom Wells
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National Theatre Connections 2019

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 10 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. Salt Life is never plain sailing, but when a new government initiative comes into place offering young people the chance to train and learn skills overseas, droves of teens jump at the chance to secure their future. Once on board the transport ship, the promises of the glossy advert seem a far cry from what lies ahead. A play about generations, choices and hope. Class Its school election time and while most of the school is busy enjoying their lunch break, a deadlock is taking place amongst the members of the school council. Bitter rivalries, secret alliances and false promises are laid bare. As a ruthless battle ensues, who will win and does anyone really care? A play about politics, populism and the ping of a text message. The Sad Club This is a musical about depression and anxiety. Its a collection of monologues, songs and duologues from all over time and space exploring what about living in this world stops us from being happy and how we might go about tackling those problems. Chaos A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesnt know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boys heart falls out his chest. A butterfly has a broken wing. Stuff Vinny's organising a surprise birthday party for his mate, Anita. It's not going well: his choice of venue is a bit misguided, Anita's not keen on leaving the house, and everyone else has their own stuff going on. Maybe a surprise party wasnt the best idea? A play about trying (but not really managing) to help. Flesh A group of teenagers wake up in a forest with no clue how they got there. They find themselves separated into two different teams but have no idea what game they are expected to play. With no food, no water and seemingly no chance of escape, its only a matter of time before things start to get drastic. But whose side are people on and how far will they go to survive? Ageless In a not too distant future, Temples pharmaceutical corporation has quite literally changed the face of ageing. Their miracle drug keeps its users looking perpetually teenage. With an ever youthful population, how can society support those who are genuinely young? The Small Hours Its the middle of the night and Peebs and Epi are the only students left at school over half-term. At the end of their night out, former step-siblings Red and Jazz try to navigate their reunion. With only a couple of hours until morning, Jaffa tries to help Keesh finish an essay. As day breaks, Wolfie is getting up the courage to confess a secret to VJ at a party. Their choices are small yet momentous. The hours are small but feel very, very long. And when the night finally ends, the future is waiting all of it. terra A group of classmates is torn apart by the opportunity to perform their own dance. As they disagree and bicker, two distinct physical groups emerge and separate into opposing teams. When a strange outsider appears out of step with everyone else the divide is disrupted. A contemporary narrative dance piece about individuality, community and heritage. Variations Thirteen-year-old Alice wishes her life was completely different. She wakes up one morning to find that her life is different. In fact, it's so different that all she wants to do is get back to normality. But how does she do that? See more
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  • Weight: 636g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781350108370

About Ben Bailey SmithBenjamin KuffuorDawn KingKatherine SoperKatie HimsLajaune LincolnLaura LomasNell LeyshonRob DrummondTom Wells

Rob Drummond is a writer performer and director from Glasgow. His theatre credits include Sixteen Bullet Catch Hunter Post Show Allotment Mr Write Rob Drummond: Wrestling and Top Table. In 2011 Rob wrote performed and directed his critically acclaimed show Rob Drummond: Wrestling for which he trained as a professional wrestler. His dark comedy Top Table appeared at Oran Mor in 2011 and his modern retelling of the Passion premiered in George Square in 2015. His play Don't. Make. Tea. premiered at the Traverse Theatre in autumn 2022 to critical acclaim before it toured the UK in spring 2024. Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright born in Glastonbury and now based in Dorset. She has written a number of plays for BBC Radios 3 and 4. Her stage plays include Comfort Me with Apples which won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005 and an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story Don't Look Now. In 2010 she became the first female playwright to be commissioned to write for Shakespeare's Globe since 1599. Katie Hims is a writer for stage screen and radio. This year her stage work includes Variations for the National Theatre's NT Connections Three Minutes After Midnight for The Globe Theatres Dark Night anthology series and The Stranger On the Bridge which toured The Tobacco Factory and Salisbury Playhouse. Katie's previous stage work includes Billy the Girl for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and she has spent time on attachment to the National Theatre Studio. Since 2014 Katie has written for the radio series Home Front including five seasons as lead writer. Other radio work includes Black Eyed Girls (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama) Lost Property (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama) The Gunshot Wedding (winner of The Writers Guild Best Original Radio Drama) and The Earthquake Girl (winner of the Richard Imison Award). Radio Adaptations include The Martin Beck Killings by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. She has also written for the long running television series Casualty. Tom Wells is a playwright whose work includes Broken Biscuits (Live Theatre/Paines Plough UK tour 2016); Folk (Birmingham Rep & tour 2016); Jumpers for Goalposts (Watford Palace Theatre 2013); The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre 2011) and Me As A Penguin(Arcola Theatre 2010). Ben Bailey Smith started his career as a UK-based rapper known as Doc Brown before diversifying and moving into mainstream TV and film acting stand up comedy screen writing and children's books. He has a host of notable television performances under his belt including roles in Law & Order and Miranda as well as the British children's show 4 O'Clock Club. Lajaune Lincoln is a London based screenwriter. Current screenplays include the high concept neo-noir Real Eyes; industry satire The One That Got Away featured in both Screen International and The Hollywood Reporter; sci-fi Mesmetopia; eighties thrillers Dirty District and Double Diamonds; and the psychological thriller Spacek. Dawn King is an award-winning writer who works in theatre radio TV VR and film. Laura Lomas is a playwright whose plays include Bird (Root Theatre and Echo); Blister (Paines Pough/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Open Heart Surgery (Theatre Uncut); Come to Where Im From (Paines Plough); Some Machine (Paines Plough/Rose Bruford); The Island (Nottingham Playhouse/Det Norske Oslo); Us Like Gods (Hampstead Heat and Light); Gypsy Girl (Paines Plough Later at Soho) and Wasteland (New Perspectives/Derby Theatre; shortlisted for the Brian Way Award). Radio plays include My Boy (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play; Bronze SONY Award for best radio drama) and Lucy Island (BBC Radio 3). Her screen work includes Rough Skin (Touchpaper/Channel 4; shortlisted for Best British Short at British Independent Film Awards and Raindance Film Festival). She has also written two episodes of Glue (E4/Eleven Films) and has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 Manchester Royal Exchange and jointly by Clean Break and Birmingham Rep. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow 2013 and a Yaddo Fellow 2014. Katherine Soper is a playwright. Her first play WISH LIST won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting The Stage Debut Award for Best New Play and caused Katherine to be nominated as Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards. Benjamin Kuffuor graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2011 and his first project following graduation was developed by Big Talk Productions for E4. Prior to his time at the NFTS Benjamins first short play was produced at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2007 and he participated in the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre in 2008. Benjamin is currently developing projects for Television Theatre and Film. Luke Barnes is an award-winning playwright screenwriter and theatre-maker using live performance and film to tell stories and make a good night out thats also useful as humans and as a community. Highlights include: Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse) The Jumper Factory (Young Vic) The Sad Club (National Theatre) No One Will Tell Me How To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre Paines Plough Roundabout with Middle Child) Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide) Chapel Street (Bush Theatre) Weekend Rockstars and Ten Storey Love Song (Hull Truck with Middle Child) and The Saints (Nuffield Theatre). He is an avid Liverpool fan and average (to poor) musician.

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