National Theatre Connections 2021: Two New Plays for Young People

This 2021 collection features two plays; Find a Partner! by Miriam Battye and Like There's No Tomorrow by the Belgrade Young Company. Alongside the scripts this anthology also contains detailed workshop notes offering excellent ideas for running rehearsals, creating characters and staging productions.

In Find a Partner! we meet Hayley who is looking for love on a strange gameshow, where Love Island meets The Hunger Games. The play has a minimum cast size of 13, 6M/7F but can be performed by a much larger cast. The characters are all archetypes and as such are extremely relatable. The text is best suited to Year 9 and above; the issues it raises and the depth in which you can explore these themes could be quite mature. The text includes lots of information on the context and background of the play as well as rehearsal ideas and suggestions for developing characters and staging, including how to rehearse or perform the play virtually.