The wonderful Cult Cymru are doing a survey of Designers in Wales, trying to find out what digital tools they use and hence to identify how they might be able to help them with additional training.

They have a short questionnaire which they want people to fill in 

Digital Designers Questionnaire.docx

Once completed please forward…

The wonderful Cult Cymru are doing a survey of Designers in Wales, trying to find out what digital tools they use and hence to identify how they might be able to help them with additional training.

They have a short questionnaire which they want people to fill in 

Digital Designers Questionnaire.docx

Once completed please forward…

Useful information for Lighting Designers

http://www.walterlutzu.it/wordpress/stage_lighting_design_cad_software/?goback=%2Egde_1568117_member_5837962505510486016

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NTW are updating their database of crew, Technicians and Stage Managers, and we hope that you will give us your details.

blackTshirtdatabase

If you want to be included in our database please click on the link above and fill in the form which will automatically populate…

December 9th and 10th - the weather held back and look what happened - 

Silly Kings at Cardiff Castle - Spiegeltent Timelapse from National Theatre Wales on Vimeo.

The Spiegeltent being built…

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The cupboard is bare.   Much of  that lovely technical equipment; ipods, cameras, microphones etc....that we use for our shows, R and Ds, Assembly, WalesLab and that we lend to people for their own projects has left the building for lots of really good reasons, but has not returned yet.  I am sure that they have got lost on the way back, but we miss them terribly and would like them to come home.

Please look in your drawers, your garages, under…

There is a strong Ungulate theme in Silly Kings so I thought I would blog may favourite;

The Okapi

Neither Zebra nor Antilope this animal is most closely related to the Giraffe and it has a very similar tongue which is huge

I've shown you mine, what is your…

The Stage is running its annual awards again and the nomination deadline is fast approaching; Whether it is Theatr Clwyd, Ucheldre, Wyside or even the WMC get your votes in before it is too late.

You can also vote in some other categories,…

BECTU and NTW are organising a days workshop with rc-annie (www.rc-annie.com) in Cardiff on March 20th.

The course will cover:

- Identifying hand guns. 

- Dangers and Misconceptions about blank firing guns. 

- Playing the part: how to hold, carry and fire a handgun. 

- Working with Blank firing Guns and Replicas in Theatre

- Working with Blank firing Guns and Replicas on Set

- Looking at…

Here is the team behind the live stream of the Treorchy Assembly, - Katherine has noticed the camera

This stunning image was painted by Kyle on the back wall of the stage at the Park and Dare for Saturday Night's assembly.     If you did not make it this is the only way you can see it as it was painted over by…

The Century Theatre is thought to be the only solid structure, fully equipped, mobile theatre in the world. The dream of John Ridley, an engineer, was turned into reality in a Hinckley yard between 1948 and 1952 .

Converted from wartime military trailers and tractors, the theatre travelled in convoy of 32 vehicles to provide quality theatre around the country for 23 years.  The convoy would often travel at no more than 8 miles an hour.…

This article is from the Breitbart

CARNEGIE HALL STAGEHANDS MAKING AVERAGE OF $419,000 END STRIKE

This week, Carnegie Hall stagehands who make on average $419,000 a year went on strike, forcing the cancellation of a gala that would have benefited nonprofit artistic and education programs.

The dispute between the 122-year hall and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union, reportedly the first ever strike at Carnegie Hall, was resolved on Friday. …

One of the really interesting things about a Residency in a building is working with the team who work in that building year round. They know the building, its eccentricities, it little foibles and they know how to get things done.   This was never more apparent than when we realised that the confetti plans that we had for the show would not work.   With in minutes the team here had suggested an impossible solution and by that evening’s performance it had been rigged, tested…

Have you been to the Park and Dare since NTW arrived?   Things have changed a bit.    This beautiful theatre has been transformed into the Tonypandemonium world. 

Here we have a view that most actors are used to seeing when working at the P and D.

Rows of seats with an audience having a performance presented to them.  But that isn’t really the NTW style is it?…