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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. DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. DNA. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. When a high school 'it' gang takes a joke too far, a lonely and terrified boy is lost... isn't he? ?I am trying to keep everyone together. Ever since I came to this school haven't I been trying to keep everyone together? Aren't things better? For us? I mean not for them, not out there, but for us? Doesn't everyone want to be us, come here in the woods? Isn't that worth keeping hold of?'

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Christina Reid (A Year and a Day), Bryony Lavery (Red Sky), Henning Mankell (Bridge to the Stars), Dennis Kelly (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)
Adapted by: John Retallack (Bridge to the Stars)
Company: Lyceum Youth Theatre (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)
Director(s): Xana Maclean (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid), Gillian Howie (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid assistant)
Lighting: Paul Rodger (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)