Students at the UTC recently participated in National Theatre Connections – a productive partnership with professional theatre professionals.
The programme involves students working with a script written specially for young people by the National Theatre’s professional writers. Devising a production for their home venue, they then work in partnership with a West End theatre where they showcase their skills in a final performance.
Students at the UTC performed The Periodicals, a play exploring the damaging effects on young people’s mental health and education following the Covid-19 lockdown. Students from all year groups took part in every aspect of the show, to produce the performance they had devised together as a student-led company.
Students’ committed and productive work with a National Theatre director culminated in a performance at the West End’s Soho Theatre, where they worked with its professional technical team to gain an insider’s view of the performing and production arts industry.
