National Theatre
Connections Festival
Thursday 24th April - Saturday 26th April
The National Theatre’s annual,
nationwide youth theatre festival.
Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. The programme is 30 years old and has a history of championing the talent of young people from across the UK.
Tramshed is a proud partner venue for National Theatre Connections festival for the third year in a row. Every year, Connections commissions new plays for young people to perform. The programme brings together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. In 23/24, they worked with over 250 youth companies from every corner of the UK.
LOCATION
Tramshed
51-53 Woolwich New Road
London
SE18 6ES
Brain Play - Deptford Green School
Thursday 24th April, 6.30pm
When Mia’s dad suffers a traumatic brain injury and struggles to leave the house, she makes it her mission to find the cure for his symptoms. Delving deeper and deeper into the world of neuroscience, Mia is desperate to make him better, but first she must contend with her own brain.
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7
Mia and the Fish - Lewisham College
Thursday 24th April, 8.00pm
A modern retelling of the ancient Indian myth Manu and the Fish. Mia is a young refugee girl who along with her sister is washed up onto the shores of the UK. Against the backdrop of a freak winter heatwave, as the climate emergency becomes critical, one day Mia happens upon and nurtures a talking fish, that she names, Samaki. As well as becoming Mia’s friend and confidante, Samaki quickly grows and becomes a giant fish, larger than any marine animal the world has ever known and the key to her and her friends’ survival in the face of the imminent extinction of humanity.
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7
Fresh Air - Habs Hatcham Company
Friday 25th April, 6.30pm
Students from a Pupil Referral group are made to go orienteering in what they discover is England’s most haunted woods. Stalked by eery ghost children determined to keep them there forever, they must learn to confront the here and now to unlock the key to their futures.
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7
Mia and the Fish - Ebbsfleet Academy
Friday 25th April, 8.00pm
A modern retelling of the ancient Indian myth Manu and the Fish. Mia is a young refugee girl who along with her sister is washed up onto the shores of the UK. Against the backdrop of a freak winter heatwave, as the climate emergency becomes critical, one day Mia happens upon and nurtures a talking fish, that she names, Samaki. As well as becoming Mia’s friend and confidante, Samaki quickly grows and becomes a giant fish, larger than any marine animal the world has ever known and the key to her and her friends’ survival in the face of the imminent extinction of humanity.
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7
Ravers - Tramshed Young Company
Saturday 26th April, 5.30pm
A rag tag group of self-described ‘neeks’ (nerds and geeks) gather at midnight in a local park, to hold a ‘dry rave’. (no intoxicants). Will they succeed in redefining ‘cool’? Or will the powers that be succeed in shutting down the neek revolution?
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7
No Regrets - Churchill Theatre Company
Saturday 26th April, 7.00pm
Over the course of five years, playwright Gary McNair spoke to people at all stages and in all walks of life on the subject of regret. This play marks the results of those conversations. A collection of scenes from the silly to the profound, that charts our relationship with the things we should have done but didn’t and the things we shouldn’t have done, but did.
Tickets: Under 16s free, General admission £7