NT Connections – Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth / RIDE or DIE
Showcasing Grand Young Company actors, NT Connections – Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth / RIDE or DIE celebrates young talent.
Mon 13 Apr at 6.30pm
NT Connections – Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth / RIDE or DIE
Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival, celebrating young talent from across the UK. Each year, The National Theatre commission new plays for young people to perform, pairing some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.
Blackpool Grand Theatre is once again, proud to be hosting the National Theatre Connections Festival in its 31st year, with four local Young Theatre groups taking part, including our very own Grand Young Company young actors. Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth by Kirsty Housley
When an alarm is deliberately set off during their GCSE drama exam, a group of students find themselves in detention. As they struggle to navigate the seemingly endless tasks they’ve been set as punishment, questions are raised. Who set off the alarm and why? Will they ever get out of this detention? Will it cost them their GCSE? And why is Shakespeare still so popular?
So begins a meta deconstruction of the play as we move from classroom to theatre, artifice to reality. The performers switch between their characters and their real selves as they interrogate Shakespeare, the canon, the education system, the nature of theatre, and the world itself. They begin to wonder whether the classics really are that classic, or whether we might need to tell a different story altogether….
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