TAKE AWAY by Jackie Kay

Performed by St Francis College

11.30am

Take Away tells the story of a town which is in the grip of

onions - everyone is doing what they can to get their fix.

Darcus, a travelling poet, turns up and offers to rid the town

of the onions with his rhymes, for a small fee. A poetic

ensemble piece about a community who pay the price for

refusing to keep their promise.

BLACKOUT by Davey Anderson

Performed by Meridian School

7.30pm

Inspired by the true story of a young offender from Glasgow

who had committed a violent crime, a hard-hitting play about

getting bullied, fighting back, trying to make a name for

yourself, turning vicious, doing something stupid, losing

everything, then finding your way again.

Saturday 30 April

Connections is produced by the National Theatre and supported by a number

of individuals, trusts and foundations.

Connections plays are commissioned for and about young people from some of the

best contemporary playwrights, for performance by schools and youth theatres all

over the UK and Ireland, making Connections one of the world’s largest celebrations

of youth theatre.

For their 21st Anniversary, Connections is working with 500 youth theatres and

schools to stage 12 fantastic plays, picked from the 150 plus they have

commissioned for young people since 1995, and transfer their production to one of

Connections 40 Partner Theatres across the UK.

THE MUSICIANS by Patrick Marber

Performed by YT43

3.30pm

The orchestra of Ridley Road, a state school, is to give a

concert in Moscow at the European Festival of Youth,

playing Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony before an audience

of cultural bigwigs. But their instruments have been

impounded by Customs. Luckily, Alex, the Russian boy who

cleans the hall, is a devout ‘Pinball Wizard’ fan who comes

up with a plan that saves everyone.

BLACKOUT by Davey Anderson

Performed by Junction Young Company

7.30pm

Inspired by the true story of a young offender from Glasgow

who had committed a violent crime, a hard-hitting play about

getting bullied, fighting back, trying to make a name for

yourself, turning vicious, doing something stupid, losing

everything, then finding your way again.

IT SNOWS by Bryony Lavery

Performed by Huntingdon Youth Theatre

11.30am

Same old story. Boy doesn't meet Girl. Girl doesn't meet

Boy. Threatened by terrifying Lads Gang. Threatened by

awe-inspiring Girls Gang. Mum and Dad have declared

war... against each other. Weird neighbour in the building

opposite. Usual ordinary gloominess. Then, one day, it

snows. Everything changes.

Sunday 01 may

Monday 02 may

BLACKOUT by Davey Anderson

Performed by Hinchingbrooke School

3.30pm

Inspired by the true story of a young offender from

Glasgow who had committed a violent crime, a hard-

hitting play about getting bullied, fighting back, trying to

make a name for yourself, turning vicious, doing

something stupid, losing everything, then finding your way

again.

BEDBUG by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp & Guy Pratt

Performed by Temper Theatre Company

7.30pm

A musical based on Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1929 satire on

the distrust of authority and the threat of the independent

voice to the socialist system during a time of growing

disillusion with the Soviet Union.

Ivan Varlet is making a class change. As he prepares to marry his bourgeois bride, the

former mechanic casts off his socialist acquaintances and re-invents himself as ‘Ivor

Violet’. Before he can embark on his new life, however, a fire at the wedding kills all

the guests, and sees Ivan trapped in the ice cellar, frozen into a state of cryogenesis.

Fifty years later, after the creation of a global socialist state following a world war, Ivan

is unfrozen into an unrecognisable Russia.

Sat 30 Apr – Mon 02 May

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