Event Info
Saturdays 3-5pm
Age Guidance: 13+ years
Aberystwyth Arts Centre Upper Youth Theatre are working on Ride or Die by Florence Espeut-Nickless as their performance for the National Theatre Connections Festival 2026.
Directed by Laura Oliver and Barrie Stott
The Kids spend the whole year arguing about whether Alton Towers is actually better than Thorpe Park. At the moment Alton Towers has got 2 votes and Thorpe Park has got 2 votes. The deciding vote goes to the youngest, Angel who hasn’t actually been to any of them yet, cause he’s in year 7 and you don’t get to go on The Theme Park Extravaganza until the end of Year 7. But that’s literally in like 2 weeks, so it’ll be settled once and for all, very very soon! So what could possibly go wrong?....Angel getting suspended from school, Nan going off on a surprise holiday, Dad coming round to look after them (and he's useless) and lasts one night, and The Kids borrowing Nan's car and colliding with a Waitrose delivery van. The whole affair is literally a car crash.
· Content guidance:
o Contains frequent strong language.
o References to drug use and paraphernalia
Florence Espeut-Nickless is an award-winning writer and actor from Wiltshire.Recent writing credits include; Little Red & Other Winter Tales (Bristol Old Vic), Bernadette & Other Teenage Folk Tales (Restoke), The Odyssey (National Theatre & Trowbridge Town Hall), DESTINY (UK tour), Miracle On 34 Seymour Street (Trowbridge Town Hall).Florence was 2024 Writer in Residence at Bristol Old Vic (as part of the FILM 4/Peggy Ramsay Playwrights Awards) and is currently under commission to Bristol Old Vic, Ardent Theatre, Hightide and Pentabus.
She was CRF Writer in Residence at Pentabus and an associate artist at Strike a Light, as part of the Let Artists Be Artists programme. She took part in the BBC Voices scheme and Dancing Ledge’s High End TV writer’s programme.
