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National Theatre Connections 2020

Plays for Young People

by Mojisola Adebayo, Chris Bush, Alison Carr, John Donnelly, Vivienne Franzmann, Hattie Naylor, Andrew Muir, Frances Poet, Silva Semerciyan, Chris Thompson ยท 2020

ISBN: 1350161012 9781350161016

Category: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Page count: 536

<b>National Theatre Connections</b> 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.<br><br>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. <br><br><b>Wind / Rush Generation(s)</b> by Mojisola Adebayo <br><b>Tuesday </b>by Alison Carr<br><b>A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) </b>by John Donnelly <br><b>THE IT</b> by Vivienne Franzmann <br><b>The Marxist in Heaven </b>by Hattie Naylor <br><b>Look Up</b> by Andrew Muir <br><b>Crusaders </b>by Frances Poet <br><b>Witches Can't Be Burned </b>by Silva Semerciyan <br><b>Dungeness </b>by Chris Thompson .