National Theatre Connections

Each year the National Theatre invites ten writers to create new plays for young people to perform. This spring 260 youth theatre companies will present the premieres of these plays in venues from Inverness to Cornwall and Belfast to Norfolk. Each company will also perform at one of 27 Connections festivals in professional theatres across the country, including Royal & Derngate, and 10 companies will go on to perform at the National Theatre.

Connections celebrates great new writing for the stage – and the energy, commitment and talent of young theatre-makers. Amongst the Northamptonshire groups performing, Royal & Derngate’s Youth Theatre will be performing Hacktivists by Ben Ockrent) and The Core at Corby Cube’s Core Actors will present Hood by Katherine Chandler.