Tuesday

Caerphilly Youth Theatre perform Tuesday by Alison Carr, as part of Connections, the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival.

Tuesday is light, playful and nuanced in tone. And a little bit sci-fi.

The play centres on an ordinary Tuesday that suddenly turns very weird indeed when a tear rips across the sky over the school yard. Not only that, but it starts sucking up pupils and staff while at the same time raining down a whole new set of people. But then, that’s what happens when parallel worlds collide!

Confusion reigns as the ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ try to work out what is going on. How are Ash and Magpie identical? Can Billy cope with having his sister back? Who is Franky? Eventually, though, cracks appear between the two groups. As the air here starts to disagree with the ‘Them’, the race is on to try to get things back to how they were and safely return everyone to the Universe they came from.

The play touches on themes of friendship, sibling love, family, identity, grief, bullying, loneliness and responsibility. And in the process we might just learn something about ourselves as well as some astronomical theories of the multiverse!

Content Guidance: Discussion of the death of a character (unseen, offstage)

Caerphilly Youth Theatre meet weekly at Blackwood Miners’ Institute, under the direction of Abbie Jones assisted by Lisa Mitchard. They were selected to take part in Connections 2022 National Theatre Festival, and will also perform Tuesday at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

Supported by The Friends of Caerphilly Youth Theatre