Connections Festival

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The Connections Festival is the culmination of the National's year-long, nationwide festival of new writing for young performers, with premieres of ten new plays for young people by writers including Alia Bano, Katori Hall, Nell Leyshon and Douglas Maxwell. Nearly 200 young theatre companies from Cornwall to the Shetland Islands have taken part in Connections 2011 and its nineteen regional festivals, culminating in the Connections Festival in the Olivier and Cottesloe Theatres, which showcases an example of each play.

This year's plays travel from sixteenth-century Norfolk to Rwanda, from the story of the Pied Piper to the very contemporary worlds of repatriation parades and cosmetic surgery.

They are: Bassett by James Graham, The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon, Children of Killers by Katori Hall, Cloud Busting by Helen Blakeman adapted from the novel by Malorie Blackman, Frank & Ferdinand by Samuel Adamson, Gap by Alia Bano, Gargantua by Carl Grose, Shooting Truth by Molly Davies, Those Legs by Noel Clarke and Too Fast by
Douglas Maxwell.

All ten plays will be published in an anthology by Methuen, which will be available from the NT Bookshop and bookshops across the UK.