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Connections 2023: Tuesday

by Alison Carr

Two faces in a soft golden glow are placed diagonally opposite each other, one upside down, looking at each other against a black background. The National Theatre logo is written at the top of the image in white text. The play title and name of writer are written across the bottom of the image in white.

Performed by Plough Youth Theatre, North Devon

Tuesday is light, playful and nuanced in tone. And a little bit sci-fi.

The play centres on an ordinary Tuesday that suddenly turns very weird indeed when a tear rips across the sky over the school yard. Not only that, but it starts sucking up pupils and staff while at the same time raining down a whole new set of people. But then, that’s what happens when parallel worlds collide!

Confusion reigns as the ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ try to work out what is going on. How are Ash and Magpie identical? Can Billy cope with having his sister back? Who is Franky?

Eventually, though, cracks appear between the two groups. As the air here starts to disagree with the ‘Them’, the race is on to try to get things back to how they were and safely return everyone to the Universe they came from.

The play touches on themes of friendship, sibling love, family, identity, grief, bullying, loneliness and responsibility. And in the process we might just learn something about ourselves as well as some astronomical theories of the multiverse!

Thursday 22 June 2023, 7pm

Tickets on sale from 11am, Friday 19 May
£5 for one performance
£8 when you book for Tuesday and Innocent Creatures by Leo Butler in the same order

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Dorfman Theatre
National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX
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Suitability

Content guidance

  • Recommended for all ages.
  • Discussion of the death of a character (unseen, off stage).

Assisted performance

This performance will be Captioned

A group of young people rest in a circle, looking out and away from the group, with a soft pink and green glow effect over the image. One young person in the centre wears glasses and looks directly into the camera. The National Theatre logo and Connections 2023 logo are written at the bottom of the image in white.

Connections 2023

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