The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama's Richard Burton Company’s weeklong celebration of new writing returns in 2015 with four world premieres in Cardiff before transferring to London’s Gate Theatre.

Gary Owen returns with a new version of La Ronde and he will be joined by three more plays, each a world premiere, developed in collaboration with The Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre Wales and Paines Plough, written by some of the UK’s most promising new writing talent.

Tuesday 31 March 6.15pm
Wednesday 1 April 1.15pm & 8.15pm
Thursday 2 April 6.15pm
Friday 3 April 1.15pm
The Endless Ocean
By Brad Birch
Directed by Alice Knight
In collaboration with National Theatre Wales
A couple abandon their eight year old daughter and disappear out of the country. A kaleidoscopic exploration of the individual and a contempt for responsibility.
Tickets £8, £6 concessions
Bute Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Tuesday 31 March 6.30pm
Wednesday 1 April 1.130pm & 8.30pm
Thursday 2 April 6.30pm
Friday 3 April 1.30pm
Growth
By Luke Norris
Directed by Sean Linnen
In collaboration with Paines Plough

‘That?  That’s.  
I mean.  
Yeah. It’s a lump in a bag of lumps.
I mean.
It’s normal.’’

Tobes is young, free, and single and having a ball. Off.
Growth is a modern-day story of fear, hope, denial, love, and loss...
 And of getting over it.
Tickets £8, £6 concessions
Richard Burton Theatre

Tuesday 31 March 8.15pm
Wednesday 1 April 6.15pm
Thursday 2 April 1.15pm & 8.15pm
Friday 3 April 6.15pm
Animal
by Melissa Bubnic 
Directed by Holly Race Roughan
A reworking of Euripides’ The Bacchae in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre.
Tickets £8, £6 concessions
Bute Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Tuesday 31 March 8.30pm
Wednesday 1 April 6.30pm
Thursday 2 April 1.30pm & 8.30pm
Friday 3 April 6.30pm
Ring Ring
By Gary Owen
Directed by Ned Bennett
A modern day version of La Ronde commissioned in collaboration with the Royal Welsh College.

The Richard Burton Company performances at the Gate Theatre are principally supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation

The new writing commissions are supported by the Richard Carne Trust and the Spielman Charitable Trust