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May 2010 Blog Posts (96)

New Designer On The Block.

Hello Everyone.

My name is Dan. I am new to this community website. Recently finished set design in university and I am currently looking for work and a new challenge to get my teeth in to.

I am open to any work that is up for offer. The more experience and the more variety of work the better as I like to think that you learn more on the job and by meeting with everyone and coming together as a…

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Added by Daniel Williams on May 25, 2010 at 10:56 — No Comments

Day 87 - 'Its What You Do' - The Basement, My House, Aberystwyth

Band

Practice

Down

Stairs

House

Stuart

Brian

Tom

Guitar

Saxaphone

Singing

Beach

Party

Happy

Upbeat

Recording

Listen

OKgo

Marching

Band

Paint

All

Over

You

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 25, 2010 at 10:00 — No Comments

Audience Quotes - NTW03

After being involved with the promotion of The Devil Inside Him I managed to obtain some quotes from audience members giving their insight into the performance. Two people have replied - the first opinion is from an industry expert (who prefers to remain anonymous) and the second from a theatre graduate - Ian Geraghty:…

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Added by Melody Louise Brain on May 24, 2010 at 22:00 — No Comments

Day 86.2 - Standing by the Fire - Cnwch Coch

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 24, 2010 at 12:30 — No Comments

Day 86.1 - Standing on the Map - My House

Thirteen Standings - 13 minutes

Sheet 125 is complete and project two is underway.

Project three will be specifically around the NTW map.

Title: Theatre Map of Wales

NTW 01 - Blackwood Miner's

NTW 02 - The Old Library Swansea

NTW 03 - The New Theatre Cardiff

NTW 04 - TBC etc.

NTW 05

NTW 06

NTW…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 24, 2010 at 1:38 — No Comments

The Route of The Kiwi Knights

Hey everyone this is a rough guide of the route we will be taking, starting 21st june, it's done on Google Maps so isn't going to be exact but it does give you a rough estimate, plus shows all the major towns and cities we will be travelling through and how long it's going to take.

U.K.

London - Portsmouth 74 miles

FRANCE

St Malo - Dinan 18 miles

Dinan - Mont St Michael 33 miles

Mont St…

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Added by David Delia on May 24, 2010 at 0:20 — No Comments

Day 86 - Watching through my window - My House

It's 11:34 am and I am sat by the front window of my house watching people as they pass by. The shop across the road sells bacon and eggs which I have purchased on a number of occasions. Each time I have the same conversation about the eggs in which I am assured that while they are not called free range they do come from hens that are free range in everything but name. Obviously someone has mislabeled them as there is a 3 printed on the shell in red ink. The box reliably informs me that… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 23, 2010 at 23:41 — No Comments

Review: Hijinx Theatre - 'Into My Own' by Glenys Evans - The Stage

For almost 30 years Hijinx has staged plays that not only entertain but in many cases carry significant social messages, often exploring physical and/or learning disabilities.

Glenys Evans’ play is a prime example of this courageous policy, with the added relevance that the cast of four features Sara Pickard who herself has such difficulties. Her performance is a…

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Added by Hijinx Theatre on May 23, 2010 at 21:00 — No Comments

Day 85 - On the road again - Back to Aberystwyth

The journey back to Aber was excruciatingly hot. Ben's Nissan Sunny doesn't have air conditioning and that it goes at all is quite a surprise. Wales is looking extremely green at this time of year. Sheep throwing themselves at wire fences to escape the oncoming traffic are in danger of bouncing right back into the road. They look a whole lot hotter than us, apparently they don't get sheared any more as the wool has no value, instead they are left to scrape it off.

We…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 23, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

Day 84 - Paddling down the Wye - The River Wye

18 miles doesn't sound like a long way to paddle in a canoe. I can assure you that it is. There were only two stretches of water that seemed to be moving, the rest of it was like raking gravel. The Sun was unrelenting so I covered myself in factor thirty and tied a shirt around my head. Harry and I managed to avoid sinking more than once. We had just tried to release the stag's boat into the river but hadn't managed to get away ourselves before our boat was over turned and my flip flops… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 22, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

hello sunshine!

Apparently the sun is going to shine until Tuesday which is just perfect for us. We're off to Prestatyn again tomorrow until Tuesday to do more playtesting. 3 days, playing games on the beach in the sunshine, hmm, am I really working?

Well yes, actually, pretty hard but I'm pleased to say things are really coming together now and seeing people playing our games and seeing how well they work (or don't work) is a really exciting stage to be at. The people we've met in Prestatyn…

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Added by Rhiannon Cousins on May 21, 2010 at 23:27 — No Comments

Review: WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Stage Adaptation)

Perhaps, in the last two decades, Hollywood has seldom delivered a love story that has been as endearing as, When Harry Met Sally. Nora Ephron’s penned tale that talks about two idiosyncratic characters—Harry Burns and Sally Albright-- finding love in each other, over a period of twelve years and three months, somehow, just…

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Added by Reema Gehi on May 21, 2010 at 15:30 — No Comments

Today we are ONE!

It was one year ago TODAY that we moved into our offices at 30 Castle Arcade and had our glorious Housewarming Party that launched this very own Online Community!

We are now 1 year old and celebrating that you have been with us for this past year, driving the development of our Community onwards and upwards to this point where now - 1 year on - we have 2,000 members.

Thank you for being part of National Theatre Wales and our first… Continue

Added by Catherine Paskell on May 21, 2010 at 8:26 — No Comments

Google celebrates Pacman today - and you can play

Google are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic game Pacman today.

You can play it too. Amazing. Go to google.com and click Insert Coin. Eat the pills. You need to avoid the ghosties but you can eat them if you've taken a power pill.

As a budding game designer, try and figure out the algorithm - the "recipe" if you like - which is guiding the… Continue

Added by Carl Morris on May 21, 2010 at 4:00 — No Comments

Barmouth trip

Matt, Devinda and I went to Barmouth last week, had a wonderful time, met gorgeous people, gazed at the incredible landscape and resisted with great difficulty to an invasive feeling of holidays.

There'll be more Barmouth trips and residencies to come, every week until the end of For Mountains, Sand and Sea, our 4th show that opens on 25th June and we are very much looking forward to go back up next…

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Added by Mathilde Lopez on May 21, 2010 at 0:21 — No Comments

Reading Unwrapped

What novels have you stayed up all night reading? Which plays would you travel miles to see? What poems have you carried with you for years? Reading Unwrapped knows people have shelf-loads of writings they love, so we're making a chance for them to be brought out into the open so everyone hear them too.…

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Added by Leona Jones on May 20, 2010 at 22:58 — No Comments

Strangers International Youth Theatre Project is reaching out across South West Wales

The Strangers 2 project builds on our success with the Strangers International Youth Theatre project in 2007 but this time we will be empowering young people from not only Brynaman but also wider Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Powys and Pembrokeshire to create an original piece of theatre with young people in Hong Kong, NZ and Australia! We are looking for any organisations working in these areas with disadvantaged or marginalised groups of young people who would benefit from engaging in an exciting… Continue

Added by Sarah Jones on May 20, 2010 at 22:41 — No Comments

Day 83 - Wye Aye Man - Hay

I'm off to Hay to stalk the festival and figure out how the land lies. Last time I was there I was shouting obscenely from behind a microphone at a crowd of Wedding guests. This weekend I will be paddling down the river in pursuit of another friend, pre-wedding. I imagine it will end in tears. His not mine. Though actually quite probably mine too.

Fingers crossed there is space at the talk in Hay next weekend. Still waiting to hear back from John and Lucy on that…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 20, 2010 at 22:38 — No Comments

Teia the festival of the Pontos de Cultura

We flew to the city Fortaleza that is in the North East of Brazil, to join the…

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Added by Genaya Parris on May 20, 2010 at 22:00 — No Comments

Day 82 - Standing Very Still on Screen - Nant y Moch (well almost)

Sam brought the current edit of the Welsh Landscape work around last night. The images look great but the piece doesn't hang together conceptually. We need to find a way to tighten it up. Looks like its going to involve another 15 hours of standing very still. Thankfully its getting sunny now.

Its time for me to give it a go somewhere else... eventually at the locations for NTW. The images are incredibly pensive. They speak volumes about the places without actively…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 20, 2010 at 11:30 — No Comments