NT Connections: Fishville

The Corn Exchange Intermediate Youth Theatre takes to the stage.

Connections is the National Theatre's annual, nationwide youth theatre festival championing the talent of young people from across the UK. 

Each year the National Theatre commissions new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. 

This year's production is Fishville by Afsaneh Gray.

The story starts when a young man named Jared takes to the sea in swimming gear but never starts swimming… His death, which follows on from the unexpected sale of his parents’ house, throws the community into chaos. When the daughter of the man who bought Jared’s house arrives in Saltwell and finds a severed foot washed up at her feet, she and the daughter of the ‘second homers’ decide to investigate what drove Jared into the sea.