Connections 2025: YOU 2.0

Performed by Everyman Youth Theatre (Cardiff)

Strangers Martha and Isaac find themselves forced into playing YOU 2.0, a new therapy video game designed to help players access their better selves.

As they tackle the levels in two player mode, the pair form an unlikely friendship behind the anonymity of their gaming avatars, but their impact on each other’s lives goes much deeper than the game.

Alys Metcalf is a Welsh writer (with strong links to The Isles of Scilly) who works across TV, Theatre and Film. She’s an alumni of BBC Cornish Voices, BBC Comedy Room and trained under the Royal Court Young Writers and Criterion New Writers programmes.

As a playwright, Alys’s play Leopards opened the new Artistic Director’s season at Rose Theatre, co-produced by Francesca Moody Productions, Rose Theatre and Kater Gordon. Other theatre includes sell-out hit, You Only Live Forever at SOHO Theatre; Reel Life at Ustinov Studio Theatre Royal Bath; and Unearthed (UK Tour).

She is currently under script commission with BBC for a new TV drama and is developing her debut feature film, Little Rock with Ffilm Cymru and Blue Horizon Productions.

She has written several online viral Beginner’s Guides for popular TV shows, including Peaky Blinders, as well as interactive AI story The Act for the BBC.