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National Theatre Connections Partner Festival 2025

Join us for Day Five of this years National Theatre Connections Festival at Gulbenkian!

Performing will be Ashford Youth Theatre Company performing No Regrets and TheatreWorks Deal performing You 2.0.

Please note that this may not be the order the shows will performed in. Your ticket will cover the entire evening. The evening will begin at 6pm, and will finish by 9pm. There will be an interval between the two performances.

No Regrets By Gary McNair – Performed by Ashford Youth Theatre Company

Over the course of five years, playwright Gary McNair spoke to people at all stages and in all walks of life on the subject of regret. This play marks the results of those conversations. A collection of scenes from the silly to the profound, that charts our relationship with the things we should have done but didn’t and the things we shouldn’t have done, but did.

Suggested age suitability: 14+

Content warnings:

  • Strong language
  • Description of violence
  • Mention of alcohol and addiction
  • One scene of a mugging and stabbing
  • References to death

YOU 2.0 By Alys Metcalf – Performed by TheatreWorks Deal

A person and person playing video games Description automatically generated Strangers Martha and Isaac find themselves forced into playing YOU 2.0, a new therapy video game designed to help players access their better selves. As they tackle the levels in two player mode, the pair form an unlikely friendship behind the anonymity of their gaming avatars, but their impact on each other’s lives goes much deeper than the game.

Suggested age suitability: 13+

Content warnings:

  • Discussion of mental health
  • Allusion to self-harm
  • Mild language
  • Discussion of bereavement
  • References to chronic illness
NT Connections Partner Festival 2025 – Day Five

Sun 27 April

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ART31 takes its name from Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states that ‘Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities’.

ART31 is a vision created with, by, and for young people in Kent, championing the belief that all children and young people have an entitlement to access high quality arts and culture, to empower them to achieve their creative potential, and to genuinely engage young people as equal partners in any decision making that affects them.

The ART31 Youth Board is made up of young people from across Kent aged 13-25 who steer its governance, and influence policy and practice across the county and beyond, challenging the creative sector to examine existing ways of working and integrate young people into the core of their practice.

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