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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. In royal Elsinore, the teenage Hamlet, Ophelia and Laertes rage against the roles handed down by their parents. Set a decade before the action in Shakespeare's Hamlet, this thrilling new play, by Mike Lesslie, is a terrific first introduction to Shakespeare's anti-hero and part of the National Theatre's Connections new writing project which the Grand Youth Theatre Company (GYTC) is part of.