Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play this year. Seven youth theatre companies will come to Derby Theatre to perform their own productions of plays by Rob Drummond, Ndell Leyshon, Lajaune Lincoln & Ben Baily Smith, Laura Lomas and Tom Wells.
