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Book SynopsisNational 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
Table of Contents1. Introduction to National Theatre Connections 2. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo 3. Directors Notes on The Changing Room by Chris Bush 4. Tuesday by Alison Carr 5. A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly 6. THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann 7. The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor 8. Look Up by Andrew Muir 9. Crusaders by Frances Poet 10. Witches Can’t Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan 11. Dungeness by Chris Thompson Directors notes follow each of the 10 plays.
