In-Sook Chappell

A family held together with one lifeline – food. Helen has grown up in the UK, but always felt a piece of her story was missing. Amidst the skyscrapers and bustling streets of Hong Kong, she meets her grandmother, Lily Kwok, and steps into a past of shocking family secrets that will change her life forever. Based on Helen Tse’s bestselling novel Sweet Mandarin, this evocative new play by award-winning writer In-Sook Chappell tells the extraordinary story of the women behind the famous Manchester restaurant.

Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok

Identity, sex, twisted revenge. Anglo-Korean model Miso returns to Seoul to find Han, the brother she abandoned when adopted as a child. A foreigner in Korea, her life begins to spiral out of control when, desperate to win Han's forgiveness and to save him, she falls back on trading sex, youth and beauty for money the way her brother had to. This is the first play by British-Korean writer In-Sook Chappell, winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2007.

This Isn't Romance

Barney Norris

Alice Birch

Brad Birch

Fiona Doyle

Chris Bush

Natalie Mitchell

Chinonyerem Odimba

Phoebe Éclair Powell

Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and – particularly in the case of Connections – who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays offer young performers an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study. From friends building bridges and siblings breaking down walls; girls making their voice heard and boys searching for home; and not forgetting a band of unlikely action heroes taking control of the weather. The anthology contains nine play scripts along with imaginative production notes and exercises, as well as a short introduction to the writing process for the tenth Connections play [ BLANK ] by Alice Birch. National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.

The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness

National Theatre Connections 2018

In-Sook Chappell

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