Tuesday by Alison Carr

The National Theatre's Connections project is an interesting and exciting process. When selected, the youth theatre company is given a choice of 10 plays written for young people and never before performed, and is asked to select their top two plays which they'd like to perform. Now, in the interests of full disclosure, Tuesday was my second choice!

The play's plot leads to some interesting design challenges: It's a seemingly normal Tuesday at Lane End School when, out of nowhere, a giant tear forms in the sky. Out of the tear falls doppelgangers of some students, with some minor changes to their lives as their ‘what ifs’ are answered. The students must work together in order to return the doppelgangers to their alternate universe, before they become too sick. A human chain supports the young people to fix the tear and send their doppelgangers home again.