Hope Springs: Youth Edition

When all communications are lost with a privately run youth correction facility, two educational inspectors head off to the facility’s remote island location to work out what has happened. They get more than they bargained for in this tale exploring big issues for young people.

Sent to the island for “behaviour modification”, some of the pupils staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simply wanted to keep their heads down and leave after they’d gone through “the programme”.

This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script – inspiring readers and performers to ask the question: “What would I have done?”

This version of Hope Springs is adapted for younger actors; it touches on some big themes but addresses them more obliquely than the more hard-hitting original.