Eastern Angles Young Company Present - Fresh Air by Vicky Donoghue
As part of the National Theatre Connections Festival Eastern Angles Young Company will perform Fresh Air by Vicky Donoghue.
The story focuses on students from a Pupil Referral group. They are made to go orienteering in what they discover is England’s most haunted woods. Stalked by eery ghost children determined to keep them there forever, they must learn to confront the here and now to unlock the key to their futures.
Suitable for ages 14+
Content guidance: Moderate language, mild gore, mild dread throughout, ghosts and supernatural elements throughout, references to mental health and one instance of a character being choked.
Vickie Donoghue is a writer from Essex working across stage, screen and radio. Her plays include Mudlarks at The Bush Theatre; Tender Loving Care at the New Theatre Royal Portsmouth; Aperture at the Royal Court Theatre; The Path at the HighTide Festival; The Electric for Paines Plough and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; The Witch Finder’s Sister and The Flood at The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch; The Gift for BBC Radio 4; The Piper, a 10 part Podcast drama co-written with Natalie Mitchell for BBC Sounds. Vickie was an Associate Artist at The Mercury Theatre and a Paines Plough playwright Fellow. She was longlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards as Most Promising New Playwright and was shortlisted for the Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright Award.
About National Theatre Connections -
Every year, Connections commissions new plays for young people to perform. The programme brings together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. Connections is open to any company of young people aged 13-19, and up to 26 years old for groups with additional needs. You can be a school, a youth theatre or voluntary organisation.
Pizza, Play Pint Nights
Play, Pizza & Pints is Eastern Angles new platform for showcasing some of the best new writing from emerging playwrights across East Anglia and the wider UK. Each event will feature a rehearsed reading of a new play, performed by professional actors.
For writers, it’s a chance to hear their work performed in front of a live audience; for audiences, it’s a new play, a slice of pizza and an alcoholic or soft drink, all for the price of a £12 ticket!