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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 a hot, alien landscape, three argumentative young archaeology interns are cataloguing the latest artefacts. Near them, a gaping dark hole marks the entrance to a recently opened tomb. On the trestle table, under a baking sky, stand a fragile paper bird, a richly-jewelled ceremonial robe and an axe made of human bone. What happens when we pillage the graves of the long dead? The Nuffield production of Red Sky will be performed at the theatre on April 21 as part of a week-long showcase of visiting Youth theatre productions of Connections plays: A Year and a Day by Christina Reid; The Black Remote by Glyn Maxwell; Scary Play by Judith Johnston; DeoxyriboNucleic Acid by Dennis Kelly; A Bridge to the Stars by Henning Mankell.

Creatives/Company

Company: Nuffield Youth Theatre
Director: Fran Morley