Another project that has been in progress, and nearing completion, is a monologue concerning the folklore of Wales and how it impacts on a folklorist's demeanour as he searches for answers to our existence and eventually it causes a complete mental collapse in which reality is not all it seems. The narrator, unnamed, tells of The Faery Folk in the extract below.
Carnival originally meant festival of the flesh. That a race of cannibalistic faery folk existed in the…
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We are searching for a Stage and production assistant to join our ever growing theatre and production company. The stage assistants responsibilities include setting up and testing sound, lighting, and various other equipment, following the Theatre Mangers’s instructions, assisting performers backstage, making adjustments to sets, helping tech shows with sound and lighting. When not helping in the theatre, you’ll be helping our Production MOD with Decorations and preparing and…
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Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) is the pulp fiction writer who found fame in the pages of “Weird Tales” that first published his stories of Conan the Cimmerian. His other creations are well-known and too numerous to list; he also wrote in other genres that showed his individualistic style. A man of vast contradictions, irascible temper, he committed suicide on June 11th when he knew his mother would not recover from her final illness. Howard survived for eight hours after shooting himself in…
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International reviews have brought fresh eyes to a local issue via my new piece if writing, ‘The Wyre Lady of Fleetwood’. Technology has done us proud over the last two years and continues to pay back the price of investment in M1 chips and more. To hear the thoughts on my latest project from another hemisphere is valuable and I am grateful to read this new review today of our show.
If it takes a village to rear a child it takes a world to fix a…
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Shout out to any TRANSGENDER WOMEN actors! Are there any in this community that has good availability in January 2022? I posted a job advert on November 22nd for an acting gig this Christmas, however I am now postponing it until next January. Please read my post and if interested please do get in touch, I’d love to hear from you! If there are no actors from the trans community here, can people please be kind and pass the word around, share, do your magic and help a brother…
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Hello lovely people!
So sorry for the late notice on this one but…..
PAID ACTING GIG here.
Type: Stage Play
Name: The PENIS Apology
Genre: Comedy/Drama
When: 13th - 18th December 2021 (performance dates)
Where: Bristol Alma Tavern Pub Theatre, Heath Park Community Hall, Cardiff and Scout Hut (behind Christ Church) in Roath, Cardiff
Rehearsals: 29th November - 11th December. 11 days worth of rehearsals in Scout…
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This extract from my monologue “No Robe for a Hermit”, printed below, has received much interest from certain quarters. I was pleased with the response: no-one knew if the voice of the unnamed actor was autobiographical or not. The unnamed actor is introspective and, as he begins to question all he has achieved early in his career, during the late 1950s and 1960s, his doubts begin to creep in as he believes that success is an illusion and will bring no happiness to him and his…
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Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English Literature. This extract, from a monologue I wrote, “Nell and The Old Woman”, is about Nell Trent, the doomed heroine of “The Old Curiosity Shop”. The book deserves a careful reading because it offers many perspectives on human character; how people are made to suffer through no fault of their own. The monologue is part of my interpretation of a curious scene that takes place in a graveyard with an old woman Nell meets…
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UK Premiere 27 February (Newport Riverfront)
Performed by Music Theatre Wales in association with the London Sinfonietta
Premiered in Philadelphia in September 2019
Written by Michael McCarthy, Artistic Director…
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We have a few places left at our HAMLETS Hubs in Newport and Cardiff - starting this Saturday 9th (WMC) and Monday 11th (Newport Riverfront). HAMLETS is a free Wales-wide project exploring the possibility of creating a massive ensemble of young Hamlets. Working with some of Wales' most dynamic theatre-makers we are looking for 18-25 year olds to come along and explore their experience of life in Wales today through Hamlet. All genders and all levels of experience (including none) very very…
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Just round the corner from the Royal Court is 23 Cliveden Place, the home of Nye Bevan and Jennie Lee. As I walked past this address on my way to The Royal Court I realised that perhaps Wales was not so very far away.
Some may question placing such an intrinsically Welsh story onto a London stage but just as Bevan saw the universality of the lessons he learnt in Tredegar, so are the subjects that Ed Thomas addresses in On Bear Ridge. We are all subject to forces that we…
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An Arts Council of Wales funded project gets the green light
The Romani Cultural & Arts Company is proud to announce a new exhibition of works by the artist Cas Holmes. This exciting installation of specially commissioned artworks is the latest in our groundbreaking Gypsy Maker project—an initiative that…
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This Three-Act play, like its One-Act predecessor “Death Dreams”, an extract was published last December, is about the final years of Colonel Percy. H. Fawcett. I was intending to keep the original title of the previous play for the full version, but the reasons for the change will be apparent on reading the play when it is published,
Rather than being a strict chronology, the play concentrates on Fawcett’s beliefs and what compelled him to make the fatal last expedition in…
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* STAGE DESIGNER / SCENOGRAPHER CALL OUT *
August 012 are seeking a designer for Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, directed by Mathilde Lopez.
August 012 will stage the nineteen chapters dedicated to the battle of Waterloo in Les Miserables and embrace the complexity…
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The newspaper photograph shows Jack Fawcett, towards the left, Raleigh Rimmel towards the right, at Dead Horse Camp, May, 1925. This was five weeks into their journey and the last photograph of them taken before they went missing. Percy Fawcett took the photograph.…
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The play concerns the last expedition of Colonel Percy Fawcett who, alongside his son, Jack, and Jack’s boyhood friend, Raleigh Rimmel, vanished in the jungles of the Amazon in 1925 while searching for “The Lost City of Z” that Fawcett was convinced existed.
Mystic, scholar, legendary explorer of South America, Fawcett was a complex man whose obsession proved destructive. The play offers an understanding of events, based on documentary evidence, of what compelled Percy Fawcett on this…
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Pen and Paper Theatre Co. CYF presents Lunch by Steven Berkoff.
A pair of lonely people meet by chance on their lunch hour, are attracted to each other, and try to compress a whole relationship into that lunch time. He tries his hardest to sell what he can - SPACE - in a magazine.. She has just come for some lunch.
From early…
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About the project
As part of ACW Lead Creative Schools Scheme, Pillgwenlly Primary School are looking to collaborate with a Drama Practitioner/Creative Writer to work with Year 2 Pupils to develop their oracy skills. Their aim is to discover and develop creative techniques that would help and inspire the children to be more creative during oracy tasks and embed the techniques to feed into their written work.…
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WE NEED YOU
A Unique Performance Opportunity in Swansea.
Marc Rees is searching for performers of all ages (18-80) to take part in his upcoming epic production NOW THE HERO.
Rehearsals will be:
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The following is one of a number of stories that has been collated in the Rhondda and will be used in a future production about the Great War and how it affected the townships of the Rhondda Valleys.
My grandmother, Morfydd Edwards, only occasionally spoke of her brothers Phillip and David, Phillip’s death, and of what occurred in Dinas during the Great War to my father, Emrys Edwards.
She, including the rest of her family and many other grieving families,…
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