The National Theatre Connections festival is a celebration of young people, theatre-making and the importance of access to the arts.

Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.

300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play this year. To The North Wall, we’ll be welcoming eight young companies:

Abdabs Youth Theatre / Witney, Oxon
Allstars Theatre Company/ Bucks & Herts
Brookfields SEN School / Reading, Berkshire
Kingham Hill School / Chipping Norton, Oxon
Oxford High School
Oxford Playhouse & Magdalen College School
PQA / Maidenhead, Berks
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School /Aylesbury, Bucks
Tickets for Connections shows go on sale in March 2019

Credits
Connections is supported by The Mohn Westlake Foundation, The Buffini Chao Foundation, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Delta Air Lines, Jacqueline and Richard Worswick, The Peter Cundill Foundation, Mactaggart Third Fund, The EBM Charitable Trust, Samantha and Richard Campbell-Breeden, Susan Miller and Byron Grote, The Broughton Family Charitable Trust and The Derrill Allatt Foundation

The National Theatre’s Partner for Learning is Bank of America Merrill Lynch