NPC

NPC (non-player characters) is a confrontational exploration of how negative influences, boredom and nihilism among a group of young people escalates into destructive behaviour. The world of the characters has little regard for the rest of society… Until they are faced with the consequences of an act of malicious, non-sensical aggression.

NPC raises weighty questions about the origin of this destructive behaviour: is it nature or nurture? Themes like self-identity and group identity, bullying, brutality and responsibility prompt us to reflect on how we as a society tackle these questions.    

In a production directed by Haider Al Timimi, students enrolled on the RITCS NPC Master’s acting programme present a free adaptation of Dennis Kelly’s DNA.  

and we laugh
uncontrollably
tears, tears run down
our cheeks
tears
and suddenly I notice that 
I am not laughing at all
suddenly 
it occurs to me that 
I’m crying
tears of pure ice, I’m crying ice
I feel, just for a split second,
I feel complete
devastation
complete devastation