AKT National Theatre New Connections AKT Youth Theatre are taking part in The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. They will be performing BASSETT by James Graham on the 11th - 12th of March at The Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton and the 25th of March at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Bassett by James Graham
Directed by Janette Eddisford & Daniel Finlay
Citizenship class at Wootton Bassett School and the supply teacher has gone a bit nuts, doing a runner and locking the pupils in. That's bad enough, but tensions are higher today than normal, a day when only yards from their confinement a repatriation of fallen British soldiers is happening along the high street - as it has over a hundred times before through this quiet Wiltshire town. And this one is more personal than most ...
Dean needs the toilet, Aimee needs a coffee, Amid needs to pray, and Leo ... well, Leo really, really wants to be at the repat, and is determined to escape. As factions form and secrets are revealed, maybe he's not the only one who'll want to get away.
Bassett is a pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war; who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about these conflicts, their country, and themselves.
Venue: The Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
Date: 11th - 12th March 2011
Time: 8pm (doors 7.30pm)
Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 Cons)
To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709.
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