Titas Halder

National Theatre Connections 2024 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like trans-rights, the mental health crisis, colonial history, disability activism, and climate change, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2024 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2024 Festival (eight brand-new plays, and two returning favourites), as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

'I walk home. The skyline is changed. The skeleton is fast becoming a huge metal creature. They have built a behemoth here.' Bhopal. India. 1984. Born under a blue sky in a city of lakes, a girl grows up with her father and sister. The three of them together, always. But as she grows, the land begins to change. A giant factory rises over her town. Her mother always wanted more for them – now the girl wants more too. Then comes the night that tears everything apart. Ferocious, brutal and damning, Darkling is an epic story of a life ravaged by ecological disaster. Titas Halder's play premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Matthew Xia and co-produced with Actors Touring Company, before touring the UK.

A. K. wants to escape the Island. Live a good life. Still the sea draws you back. When a dreadful secret comes to light, A. K. returns to his home town to confront the shadows of his childhood and put right a terrible wrong. But what about the other version of himself, the one who lives inside his ribcage? An exhilarating fever dream, Titas Halder's play Foal is a revenge thriller set in the era of the Sony Walkman; a lyrical, urgent new play about masculinity, compassion, and retribution. It is premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2026.

Sedan 2012 har Länk engagerat tusentals teaterintresserade ungdomar över hela Sverige genom nyskriven och angelägen dramatik. I den åttonde antologin, Länk 2026, möter vi magiska formler, mystiska väsen och kreativa täckmantlar. Här samlas pjäser som sprakar och engagerar - med driv, kärlek och spänning - och som ifrågasätter vad som är rätt och fel, eller upp och ned. Länk 2026 rymmer sex specialskrivna pjäser för ungdomar, för både större och mindre grupper, och för dem som vill tänja på fantasins och kreativitetens gränser. Pjäserna spelades under 2026 av 75 ensembler över hela Sverige. Nu väntar de på att spelas igen och igen, av just dig och din teatergrupp. - - - Julia Ahndoril: Elevator Elsa Berggren: Lucky Nose Lab Mohamed El Abed: Kuratorn David Farr: Slagsmål i parken Titas Halder: Replika Felicia Ohly: Flocken - - - Länk ges ut i samarbete med Riksteatern.

I saw it so clearly - you and I in this house, dressed ready to depart. Framed beautifully in this mirror. It was like a freeze frame, stuck. Then the image shatters and you crumple with the glass. Escape the Scaffold is a dark and dangerous psychological thriller set against the background of a rapidly changing world. Three best friends hunker down in their student house, forced to make decisions that will mark them for the rest of their lives. Get a job. Get married. Put down the tequila and take the money. Save yourself. Love triangle turns to murderous betrayal. Youthful idealism is tested, paranoia takes hold, and real life melts into a nightmare world. The basement is filling with water and there is a monster in the house.

Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour’s cat has been dismembered. And worse, he’s being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. A wild hallucinogenic mystery, Run The Beast Down is an exhilarating monologue play, combining elements of storytelling, dark comedy and magical realism.