National Theatre connections 2015 - National Theatre

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of
established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections
anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes
place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London. The programme offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen
everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each
play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary
department with the young performer in mind. The plays are performed by
approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and
Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres
where the works are showcased.The anthology contains all ten of the play scripts, and
notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas
behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises.The
National Theatre Connections series has been running for twenty years
and the anthology that accompanies it, published for the last five years by Methuen Drama, is gaining a greater profile by the year. This year's anthology includes
plays by Jamie Brittain, Katherine Chandler, Elinor Cook, Ayub Khan Din, Katie Douglas, Cush Jumbo, Ben Ockrent, Eugene O'Hare, Stef Smith and Sarah Solemani.