Play Collections

NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS

“Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. It is a celebration of youth theatre, new writing, creativity and partnership, and above all the importance of access for young people to the arts.” – Kirsten Adam, Connections Producer, National Theatre

JUN 2022

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National Theatre Connections 2022

10 Plays for Young Performers

The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. This 2022 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2022 Connections Festival.

The anthology contains ten play scripts, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

PB | 9781350320444 | £19.99 Plays included:

Cable Street by Lisa Goldman Chat Back by David Judge Find a Partner! by Miriam Battye Hunt by Fionnuala Kennedy Like There’s No Tomorrow created by the Belgrade Young Company with Justine Themen, Claire Procter and Liz Mytton The Ramayana Reset by Ayeesha Menon, with choreography by Hofesh Shechter Remote by Stef Smith Superglue by Tim Crouch Variations by Katie Hims You Don’t Need to Make a Big Song and Dance Out Of It by Abbey Wright, Shireen Mula and Matt Regan

Hear the 2020/21 playwrights talk about their play inspiration

Watch on Bloomsbury Academic YouTube: Introducing the plays of the 2020/21 National Theatre Connections festival

National Theatre Connections 2020/21

11 Plays for Young People

This special 2020/21 pack captures the two new plays written for the 2021 festival responding to the restrictions in place due to Covid-19. It also includes the National Theatre Connections 2020 anthology which features 9 plays, 8 of which were included in the 2021 festival performances.

PB | 9781350233744 | £24.99

For previous year’s National Theatre Connections anthologies, visit bloomsbury.com/Drama