National Theatre Connections 2023 - Plays for Young People Synopsis
A new anthology of 10 plays specifically written for young performers as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival 2023.
National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.
The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance.
This 2023 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.
- Provides a mix of large-scale plays suitable for schools, young people and youth theatres to perform and study
- Includes notes from directors with help and advice on how to stage each play
To support further study of The National Theatre Connections, you can find a discussion with the playwrights, available through the Bloomsbury English and Drama Teacher Resources page.
Find a Preview of The National Theatre Connections here.
About This Edition
Simon Longman, Lisa McGee, Mr Leo Butler, Jordan Tannahill Press Reviews
Whether you are looking to stage a full production, explore different styles of text and performance in a lesson or find some starting points for textual analysis and discussion, this folio has a resource that could prove useful. - Drama & Theatre
About Simon Longman, Lisa McGee, Mr Leo Butler, Jordan Tannahill
Simon Longman is a playwright from the West Midlands. Lisa McGee, an award-winning screenwriter and playwright from Derry, is the creator, writer and executive producer of the acclaimed Derry Girls. Leo Butler is an award-winning playwright. Jordan Tannahill is a novelist, playwright, and director of film and theatre. Avaes Mohammad's scripts have chronicled post 9/11 multicultural Britain and represented the challenges of young people in the UK. Jon Brittain is a playwright, television writer and director. Molly Taylor is a writer & theatre-maker from Liverpool. Shamser Sinha writes about people at the wrong end of money, fortune and the wars we fight. Ed Harris is an award-winning, dyslexic playwright, poet and comedy writer based in Brighton. Alison Carr is a playwright and radio dramatist.
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