The budding actors will perform at annual, nationwide youth theatre festival NT Connections Double Bill on Tuesday 24th March
Local young people will perform at a youth theatre festival held next Tuesday (24th March) at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
The budding actors will perform in two plays during NT Connections Double Bill at the Hoe Street venue, with tickets for the event costing just £8.
The plays are Cloud Busting by Helen Blakeman (based on the novel by Malorie Blackman) and performed by Chingford BITA, and Ride or Die by Florence Espeut-Nickless and performed by Highams Park Company.
A synopsis of Cloud Busting posted on Soho Theatre Walthamstow’s website reads: “When Sam wakes up, he fully believes that today will just be another ordinary day – but that’s before Mr Mackie tells Class 8M to write a poem about someone they care about.
“Unexpectedly, Sam volunteers to write about Davey… Davey was Sam’s friend – not that Sam wanted anyone to know that. While the cool girls in the class thought Davey was ‘well cute in a sad dog sort of way’, the tough boys – Morgan and his crew – just saw Davey as different. Davey liked to dance.
“Davey liked to look at the clouds and see the shapes they made. Davey liked looking at the world in a different way to everybody else. But no matter how much Sam liked being with Davey, he always denied their friendship. Then one day, the bullying goes a step too far… but will Sam step in to help his friend? It’s not the ordinary day Sam thought it was going to be.”
Ride or Die meanwhile depicts friends who have spent the whole year arguing over whether Alton Towers or Thorpe Park is better, with the final vote resting on Angel – who hasn’t even been yet. But just weeks before the big trip, everything unravels spectacularly: Angel gets suspended, Nan disappears on holiday, Dad proves useless, and a borrowed car ends up crashing into a Waitrose van.
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