As part of NT Connections Festival 2025

Double Bill: Ravers & You 2.0

Plays by Rikki Beadle-Blair & Alys Metcalf

Sun 4 May, 2025

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Inspire Performing Arts and Derby Youth Theatre perform at Derby Theatre as part of NT Connections Festival 2025.

Ravers

Performed by Inspire Performing Arts

A rag tag group of self-described ‘neeks’ (nerds and geeks) gather at midnight in a local park, to hold a ‘dry rave’. (no intoxicants). Will they succeed in redefining ‘cool’? Or will the powers that be succeed in shutting down the neek revolution?

SHOW ADVISORIES:

14+ | Depiction of underage drinking | Moderate language | Themes of anxiety | References of the loss of a parent

YOU 2.0

Performed by Derby Youth Theatre

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.

SHOW ADVISORIES:

13+ | Discussion of mental health | Allusion to self-harm | Mild language | Discussion of bereavement | References to chronic illness


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Venue

Main House

Overview

Time: 7:00 pm
Performance duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes (incl. interval)
Age guidance: 14+

Pricing

Standard: £10
Under 26's: £8

Playwright

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a writer, director, composer, choreographer, designer,
producer and performer working in film, theatre, television and radio. Having written
and directed 40+ plays over the last 20 years along with several feature films, shorts
and TV episodes and series, he has won several awards including the Sony Award, the
Los Angeles Outfest Screenwriting and Outstanding Achievement awards, plus both an
MBE for contributions to drama and an honorary doctor of letters from the University of
Warwick. Rikki’s passion for encouraging wellness, creativity and business sense in others
has made a committed and effective mentor to a great many writers, actors, composers
and directors around the world. As well as hosting the Annual UK Black Pride Event, Rikki
has hosted Voguing balls around the country for the last 15 years.

Alys Metcalf is a Welsh writer (with strong links to The Isles of Scilly) who works across
TV, Theatre and Film. She’s an alumni of BBC Cornish Voices, BBC Comedy Room and
trained under the Royal Court Young Writers and Criterion New Writers programmes.
As a playwright, Alys’s play Leopards opened the new Artistic Director’s season at
Rose Theatre, co-produced by Francesca Moody Productions, Rose Theatre and Kater
Gordon. Other theatre includes sell-out hit, You Only Live Forever at SOHO Theatre; Reel
Life at Ustinov Studio Theatre Royal Bath; and Unearthed (UK Tour). She is currently
under script commission with BBC for a new TV drama and is developing her debut
feature film, Little Rock with Ffilm Cymru and Blue Horizon Productions. She has written
several online viral Beginner’s Guides for popular TV shows, including Peaky Blinders, as
well as interactive AI story The Act for the BBC.

View Dates and Book

Sun 4th May, 7.00pm
Price: £10