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NT Connections: Normalised



  • Corn Exchange Auditorium
  • Full Price £9 (including booking fees)
National Theatre. A group of teenagers sit in theatre seats looking sad

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 ten 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 Normalised by Amanda Verlaque . 

How do you protect a memory against a homophobic bully, when the bully is your own brother?

When an environmental campaign is the catalyst for protecting an LGBTQIA+ shrine, a group of friends must confront what comes first – friends, or family. And as the stakes rise, the battle lines are drawn between being loyal, being an ally, and what does ‘normal’ really mean anyway?

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
National Theatre Connections 2025

Performance time: 7pm

Duration: 1 hour approx (no interval)

Age Guide: 14+

Content Warning: Strong language; references to the death of a character in a car accident, and themes of grief; references to and depictions of homophobia; depictions of bullying.

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