Chaos

A girl is locked in a room

A boy brings another boy flowers

A girl has tied herself to a railing

A boy doesn’t know who he is

A girl worries about impending catastrophe

A woman jumps in front of a train

A boy’s heart falls out of his chest

A butterfly has a broken wing

Laura Lomas’s play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes

A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world

Bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence, they find order in the disorder of each other

Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK

It offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size or mix of genders, and can incorporate chorus work, movement and music