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NT Connections 2019

Bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow

Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform. 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play this year. Ten companies will come to the National Theatre with their productions of plays by Luke Barnes, Rob Drummond, Katie Hims, Dawn King, Benjamin Kuffour, Ndell Leyshon,  Lajaune Lincoln & Ben Baily Smith, Laura Lomas, Katherine Soper and Tom Wells.

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@bushtheatre

Making music with the Bush Theatre. Thanks Alex for a great afternoon! @bushtheatre @MasbroCentre https://t.co/8t46SYoVLn
Masbro Elders Project
@Tin0Wood
27 Jan
We’re currently looking for volunteers from the Muslim community who identify as Deaf or disabled,to join a London… https://t.co/GShrtcKc1H
Graeae Theatre
@graeae
27 Jan
The last 2 weeks of theatre have been rather dreamy ❤️ https://t.co/txqujgNf4A
Francesca Goodridge
@FrancescaJadeG
25 Jan
@bushtheatre Thanks all! Congrats on Baby Reindeer too - great show.
Papatango
@PapatangoTC
24 Jan
RE-INTRODUCING the incomparable ✨@BreffniHolahan ✨ who'll be playing Essie in @mapperry's multi-award-winning… https://t.co/065CdR1wZg
EKP
@EllieKeelProd
24 Jan
When Martin Sherman, Larry Kramer and @IanMcKellen left a note for me at box office at @bushtheatre after seeing Be… https://t.co/vZPjCAl19I
Jonathan Harvey
@JOJEHARVEY
23 Jan

Bush Green

Conversations, dispatches and ideas from the Bush Theatre.

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There must be magic in the atmosphere By Benedict Lombe
17 Jan

Benedict Lombe from our Emerging Writers Group writes about diasporic experience. It’s 3am. I’m sitting in my room wolfing down a pack of Doritos and thinking about the night I just had. I’m also thinking – quite intensely – about who decided we needed more than one flavour of Doritos? Bro, you hit the jackpot…

Rachael Merry: The BSL access is ‘rooted in the telling of the story’
10 Jan

Zia Ahmed’s tender, funny, lyrical play about finding love and holding onto it with everything you have is keen to cross boundaries. Vital to the three-hander is Rachael Merry, who uses BSL interpretation to convey the poetic beauty of Ahmed’s language . Rachael talks to us about the show, language, and the role of accessibility…

Lauren Clancy: “What can our next government do for the arts?”
10 Dec

In two days’ time the country will head to the polls to decide who our next government will be. While this will be a pivotal moment for the nation in many ways, at the Bush we are keenly aware of the shared responsibility of the sector to ensure arts and culture sit firm on our…