NT Connections 2026 Day 1

Day one of this year’s festival features The Smithills School Theatre Company’s version of Wildfire Road by Eve Leigh.

Wildfire Road

A story about a generation whose future has been hijacked.  The whole play takes place on a flight from London to Tokyo.  There’s a hijacker on board and the flight is re-directed to Siberia and in the process saving the lives of all 416 people on board, as the rest of the world is engulfed in a massive wildfire.  It’s metaphorical, prophetic and a tale for the most important question of our times: are we going to wake up and address the climate emergency before it’s too late?

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