Nuffield Southampton Youth Theatre will perform Chris Thompson’s brilliant new play Dungeness as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival 2018 at NST City on from April 5 - 7.

Fast, witty and emotional, Dungeness is an extraordinary piece of new writing which explores themes of love, commemoration and protest.

Set in a remote part of the UK where nothing ever happens, a group of teenagers share a safe house for LGBT+ young people.

While their shared home welcomes difference, it can be tricky for self-appointed group leader Birdie to keep the peace.

The group must decide how they want to commemorate an attack that happened to LGBT+ people in a country far away.

But how do you take to the streets and protest if you’re not ready to tell the world who you are?

If you’re invisible, does your voice still count?

Will you even be heard?

Chris Thompson worked for 12 years as a social worker before quitting to become a full time playwright based in New York and London.

On writing the play, he said: “I wrote this play because, like countless others, I was bullied for being gay when I was younger and grew up in a vacuum of LGBT+ visibility.

“I campaigned for equal age of consent, the abolition of Section 28, the right to marry – to overturn a slew of legislation that was based on disgust.

“At every turn, I have had to ask permission from straight people to be myself.

“There are still places in this country where it is not safe for me to hold my lover’s hand; we’re part of something bigger, a global effort to free LGBT+ people from oppression. And we have so much further to go. But most of all, I wrote this because I absolutely love love, and I love being gay.’