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NT CONNECTIONS commissions new plays for and about young people from some of the best contemporary playwrights, for performance by schools and youth theatres from all over the UK and Ireland, both in their home venues and at sixteen regional partnership theatres. The NT Festival showcases an example of each play. From Monday 9 - Saturday 14 May Sheffield Theatres embarks on a new partnership with the National Theatre. Sheffield Theatres will be a host venue for the Connections Festival for the first time this year, presenting a week of specially-commissioned new plays for actors aged 13-19. The festival showcases a variety of new writing, featuring playwrights including Samuel Adamson, Helen Blakeman (Pleasureland), Noel Clarke (Doctor Who, Adulthood), Molly Davies, James Graham, Carl Grose (Kneehigh Theatre), Nell Leyshon and Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco). Twelve theatre groups from around the region have worked on one playwright’s work to create a lively and an inspiring production, reflecting the ideas, concerns and views of young people today