With contributions by Kay Adshead, Horton Foote, Julian Garner, Andy Hamilton, Jackie Kay, Bryony Lavery, Christian Martin, Timothy Mason, Tamsin Oglesby, Fausto Paravidino, Judy Upton.International Connections features ten new plays and a musical drawn from some of the best writers around. The plays make up a rich and varied new repertoire of challenging and entertaining work for young people. With a wide range of cast sizes, a variety of settings, styles and subject matter, and a choice of comedy, tragedy, coming-of-age stories, fables and a musical, schools and youth theatre groups will be spoilt for choice with this dazzling collection.The plays were specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the International Connections programme for young people in 2002.