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Connections Festival

Connections Festival

29 Apr–03 May 2025

The Drum

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Tue 29 Apr
7:00 pm
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  • No Regrets: Atlantic Coast Theatre Co.
  • Brain Play: The Mullion Collective
Wed 30 Apr
7:00 pm
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  • Ravers: Callywith College
  • Saba’s Swim: Plympton Academy
Thu 1 May
7:00 pm
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  • Saba’s Swim: Lipson Cooperative Academy
  • Fresh Air: Coombe Dean School
Fri 2 May
7:00 pm
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  • Brain Play: Fowey River Academy
  • Fresh Air: Bodmin College
Sat 3 May
7:00 pm
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  • You 2.0: Acorn Young People’s Theatre
  • No Regrets: TRP Young Company
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Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.

Every year, 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play.

TRP are proud to host this year’s NT Connections in The Drum.

 

List of performances:

Tues 29 Apr
Atlantic Coast Theatre Co. Performing: No Regrets The Mullion Collective Performing: Brain Play

Wed 30 Apr
Callywith College Performing: Ravers Plympton Academy Company Performing: Saba’s Swim

Thu 01 May
Lipson Cooperative Academy Performing: Saba’s swim Coombe Dean School Performing: Fresh Air

Fri 02 May
Fowey River Academy Performing: Brain Play Bodmin College Performing: Fresh Air

Sat 02 May

Acorn Young People’s Theatre Performing: You 2.0 TRP Young Company Performing: No Regrets

Important information

Tickets:
£8.00

Running time:
2 hours with 15 minute interval

Sensory notice & content warnings

No Regrets suggested age suitability: 14+ (Strong language Scenes of violence and discussion of addiction.)

Brian Play suggested age suitability: 13+ (Strong language. Topics of mental health)

Ravers suggested age suitability: 14+ (Moderate language. Themes of an adult nature)

Saba’s Swim suggested age suitability: 15+ (Frequent descriptions of war, bombing and death. Moderate language)

Fresh Air suggested age suitability: 14+ (Moderate language, themes of mild peril throughout. References to mental health)

You 2.0 suggested age suitability: 13+ (Contains discussion of mental health & bereavement)

 

Content information will become available for this production soon.

Please note – most of our productions feature flashing lights and loud sounds.

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About the plays

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No Regrets

No Regrets

by Gary McNair

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.

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Brain Play

Brain Play

by Chloë Lawrence-Taylor and Paul Sirett

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

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Ravers

Ravers

by Rikki Beadle-Blair

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?

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Saba's Swim

Saba’s Swim

by Danusia Samal

Seven months ago, Saba walked out of her GCSE mocks and didn’t come back. Her friends don’t understand why. Now, on prom night, Saba’s finally made contact, challenging her friends to track her down via a series of cryptic clues. But when the friends are finally reunited, Saba is different. The way she sees the world has changed. And what she’s asking of her friends… is it more than they can give?

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Fresh Air

Fresh Air

by Vickie Donaghue

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.

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YOU 2.0

YOU 2.0

by Alys Metcalf

Strangers Martha and Isaac find themselves forced into playing YOU 2.0, a new therapy video game designed to help players access their better selves. As they tackle the levels in two player mode, the pair form an unlikely friendship behind the anonymity of their gaming avatars, but their impact on each other’s lives goes much deeper than the game.

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