New Connections
Overview
The National commissions established playwrights to write their next new play, the only proviso is that teenagers will be performing them. Whether through comedy, tragedy or thriller, physical theatre, verbatim or musical, these plays inspire debate and stimulate teenage minds.
It's no surprise the first division playwrights queue up to write for New Connections...It's the best possible advertisement for theatre, young people, and their teachers.
Guardian
Taking part in New Connections gives young companies nationwide the chance to take on a new script, workshop with the writer, perform in their home venue, present the production to an NT Staff Director, and perform it at a New Connections Partner Theatre.
One production of each script in the portfolio will be selected to showcase as part of the National Theatre's festival of new writing for young people at the NT on the South Bank.
New Connections 2010/11
The application for the next cycle of the programme will open on Tuesday 5 May 2010 and close on Wednesday 30 June 2010. If you would like to be informed when the registration period will open, please join the discover: mailing list.
Information about New connections 2010/11 will be available on the website from May 2010. You will also be able to read synopses and sample pages for all commissions in the 2010/11 portfolio at this point.
To contact New Connections, please email youth@nationaltheatre.org.uk
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