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NT CONNECTIONS commissions new plays for and about young people from some of the best contemporary playwrights, for performance by schools and youth theatres from all over the UK and Ireland, both in their home venues and at sixteen regional partnership theatres. The NT Festival showcases an example of each play. Shooting Truth - Deep in the woods near an abandoned village, a group of students is about to shoot the story of the youngest ever witch - and Alice feels she’s finally found a role. The same woods, four centuries earlier: a gang of teenagers gather, fearful and intrigued to have found a witch in their midst - and Freya thinks at last she has some power. Past and present collide in an unsettling tale of witchcraft, film-making and practical jokes gone wrong. Gargantua - Mr and Mrs Mungus have just had a baby. Unfortunately, it isn’t the bouncing blue-eyed boy they were hoping for... After a two-and-a -half year pregnancy, Mini Mungus has birthed a monster - one with an accelerated growth rate and an insatiable appetite for anything that moves (including joggers). But when a gaggle of sinister military scientists intent on cloning an army of giant babies extract Little Hugh’s DNA, he breaks his chains and escapes. The world can only watch in horror as he embarks on a) learning how to walk and b) rampant destruction. Who will stop this freak of nature? Who will decide his tragic fate? And who, more importantly, will change his nappy? Inspired by Rabelais’ equally enormous novel (and from watching too many bad Japanese monster movies), Gargantua is an absurd comedy that combines the epic with the domestic, high concept with low comedy and the grotesque with the heart-felt. Suitable for ages: 13+

Creatives/Company

Company(s): Wyggeston, QE1 6th Form College, Castle Youth Theatre
Author(s): Molly Davies (Shooting Truth), Carl Grose (Gargantua)