NT Connections: Heritage

The Bush Theatre is delighted to be a partner of this year’s National Theatre Connections festival, the UK-wide initiative that offers groups of young people the chance to perform new plays from some of the most exciting playwrights in the country.

Heritage by Dafydd James, performed by students from Spotlight UK.

It's May Day, and a group of misfit children are specially chosen to close the day's festivities; but as they gather together in uniform to rehearse the village anthem, all is not well. Tubbsy's hiding a cat in his bag; Deirdre-May's grieving her Nanna and Mark's turned up as Stegosaurus.

As the rehearsal breaks down, they soon begin to suspect that they've been chosen for a far darker purpose...

Heritage is a blistering black comedy with music that explores the darker side of nationalism.