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. Plays included- Class by Lajaune Lincoln and Ben Baily Smith, The Sad Club by Luke Barnes, Flesh by Rob Drummond, Variations by Katie Hims, Salt by Dawn King, Ageless by Benjamin Kuffour, terra/earth by Nell Leyshon, Chaos by Laura Lomas, The Small Hours by Katherine Soper, Stuff by Tom Wells
