Plays for Young People (12-18 years)

A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.

A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

A delightful and inventive stage version of Gerald Durrell's well-loved memoir of a childhood growing up in Corfu.

A play about the power of finding your own voice, revolving around a twelve-year-old boy with a stammer. Winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.

A funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. Part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

A powerful, timely play featuring songs, about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

A smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.

An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.

A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.