National Theatre Connections – ‘Mia and the Fish’

National Theatre Connections – ‘Mia and the Fish’

Wed 23 Apr

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Overview

Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival, celebrating 30 years of championing young talent from across the UK. Each year, The National Theatre commission ten new plays for young people to perform, pairing some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.

 

Blackpool Grand Theatre is proud to be hosting the National Theatre Connections Festival, with five local Young Theatre groups taking part, including our very own Grand Young Company young actors.

 

Wed 23 Apr performance

 

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Mia and the Fish by Satinder Chohan

 

A modern retelling of the ancient Indian myth Manu and the Fish. Mia is a young refugee girl who along with her sister is washed up onto the shores of the UK. Against the backdrop of a freak winter heatwave, as the climate emergency becomes critical, one day Mia happens upon and nurtures a talking fish, that she names, Samaki. As well as becoming Mia’s friend and confidante, Samaki quickly grows and becomes a giant fish, larger than any marine animal the world has ever known and the key to her and her friends’ survival in the face of the imminent extinction of
humanity.

 

Content warnings:
– Discussion of the climate emergency
– References to displacement and the refugee crisis
– Mild language

 

OTHER PERFORMANCE DATES

Mon 21 Apr – ‘No Regrets’ & ‘YOU 2.0’ – BOOK NOW

Tue 22 Apr – ‘Normalised’ & ‘The Company of Trees’ – BOOK NOW

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