National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People

National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young PeopleCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781350161009 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2020 Publisher: Bloomsbury Description: 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781350161009
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
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

Tuesday by Alison Carr

A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly

THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann

The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor

Look Up by Andrew Muir

Crusaders by Frances Poet

Witches Can't Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan

Dungeness by Chris Thompson .