A New production by the Grand Youth Theatre Company
Georgia, Aaron and Leon have been friends since they were kids. Now they’re young adults, in their first jobs, and sharing a house in the city with newcomer Lana. It’s been two years since the accident in which Georgia lost the use of her legs, and she’s doing her best to adjust but her boyfriend and friends find the change testing. Those Legs is an intense, psychological drama that presents the precarious nature of friendship and young love in startling close-up.
This production is part of the National Theatre in London’s prestigious Connections programme, which shines a nurturing spotlight on young theatre talent across the UK. BAFTA winning British writer Noel Clarke is just one of ten playwrights who have been specially commissioned by the NT to produce inspirational new works for participating groups to perform.
Grand Youth Theatre Company Director, Colin Snell, said: “Those Legs provides great challenges for the GYTC in terms of theme, content and language; it is a small cast play that will extend and develop the skills of the actors and focuses on relationships and the subject of disability and corresponding issues.
“Having been part of the Connections programme for some ten years, the opportunity to work on new writing aimed specifically at the young is excitingly unique and provides audiences with a potent theatrical experience. The National is committed to working with new writers and young people and this scheme, which embraces over three hundred young companies nationally, is a celebration of youth theatre at its very best.”
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The National Theatre Connections programme
London’s National Theatre has commissioned ten thrilling new plays for young people from some of the most exciting writers they know in a nationwide celebration of young theatre talent at theatres across the UK.
The Connections programme gives theatre groups the chance to stage a brand new play, written for actors aged 13-19, in their home venue and at a regional festival with other Connections companies. They support with advice on choosing the script and on staging the play and with an intensive weekend’s training for the directors of each young company. The directors of all participating groups attended a workshop at the National Theatre in November with the writer of their selected play and a facilitating director for that particular workshop.
The plays in the 2011 Connections portfolio offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. The writers commissioned by the NT have worked with young people across the country and beyond – from the Shetland Isles to Devon, from Wiltshire to Manhattan – to create plays which respond to young people’s ideas and concerns, and extend their view of the world. Themes are both teenage and universal –ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.
The regional Connections partner for GYTC is the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal and the area showcase is in May. The GYTC will perform Those Legs on the final day of the festival – Saturday 7th May. The regional showcase allows all participating groups to perform their productions to a wider audience and each production is assessed by a National Theatre selector.
For further information please visit: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/newconnections
Presented By: Grand Youth Theatre Company
Booking information
Box Office 01253 290190 or click here to book online.
Adult £7.00, Child £6.00
