You 2.0 - The National Theatre 'Connections'

As part of NT Connections 2025, we are delighted to be presenting Bristol Institute of Performing Arts Company’s Home Performance of You 2.0 by Alys Metcalf.

Strangers Martha and Isaac find themselves forced into playing YOU 2.0, a new therapy video game designed to help players access their better selves. As they tackle the levels in two player mode, the pair form an unlikely friendship behind the anonymity of their gaming avatars, but their impact on each other’s lives goes much deeper than the game.

Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. 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.

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