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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. 547 days. Your country called you up, and you came. Forget about personal liberty, forget about personal space, erase the word personal from your vocabulary. You must become a unit, a sleek, beautifully ironed, nicely polished, aesthetically pleasing machine. The Grandfathers follows eight boys through National Service training and onto the battlefield. As they grow into soldiers, differences become insignificant, emotions boil over and a comrade is comforted through his final moments. Rory Mullarkey's provocative play questions the sacrifice of fragile, young lives and aspirations for the sake of others' political miscalculations.

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Author: Rory Mullarkey