NT Connections Festival: Brain Play / You 2.0

Full Description

St Catherine’s School and ACS International School Cobham perform in Day 6 of our 2025 Connections Festival, the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide celebration of new writing. 2025 is the Festival’s 30th year, and Trinity is proud to host 14 young companies in 2025 as part of its festival programme.

Schools and youth theatres across the country perform a new piece of writing developed for the programme at their home venues before visiting a festival theatre.

Each ticket gives you access to an evening of two one act plays, with a short interval in between. For all of our Connections 2025 performances, we are offering an option to buy tickets at a reduced price, full price or, if you are able to, a slightly higher price that helps subsidise our Creative Engagement work.

 

St Catherine’s School presents
Brain Play
by Chloë Lawrence-Taylor and Paul Sirett

When Mia’s dad suffers a traumatic brain injury and struggles to leave the house, she makes it her mission to find the cure for his symptoms. Delving deeper and deeper into the world of neuroscience, Mia is desperate to make him better, but first she must contend with her own brain.

Suggested age suitability: 13+

Content warnings:
• Strong language.
• Discussion of brain injury and the associate affects.
• Discussion of anxiety, PTSD and mental health.
• References to blood.
• Discussion of hearing loss.
• References to agoraphobia.
• At one point a character says “take him out and shoot him”, in jest.

 

 

ACS International School Cobham presents
You 2.0
by Alys Metcalf

Strangers Martha and Isaac find themselves forced into playing YOU 2.0, a new therapy video game designed to help players access their better selves. As they tackle the levels in two player mode, the pair form an unlikely friendship behind the anonymity of their gaming avatars, but their impact on each other’s lives goes much deeper than the game.

Suggested age suitability: 13+

Content warnings:
• Discussion of mental health.
• Allusion to self-harm.
• Mild language.
• Discussion of bereavement.
• References to chronic illness.