National Theatre Connections Partner Festival 2025
Join us for Day Four of this years National Theatre Connections Festival at Gulbenkian!
Performing will be Trinity Youth Theatre with their production of You 2.0 and also SLBS Youth Theatre with their production of Brain Play.
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.
YOU 2.0 By Alys Metcalf – Performed by Trinity Youth Theatre
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
Brain Play by Chloë Lawrence-Taylor and Paul Sirett – Performed by SLBS Youth Theatre
When Mia’s dad suffers a traumatic brain injury and struggles to leave the house, she makes it her mission to find the cure for his symptoms. Delving deeper and deeper into the world of neuroscience, Mia is desperate to make him better, but first she must contend with her own brain.
Content warnings:
- Strong language
- Discussion of brain injury and the associate affects
- Discussion of anxiety, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder and mental health
- References to blood
- Discussion of hearing loss
- References to agoraphobia
- At one point a character says “take him out and shoot him”, in jest