CASTING a new production from National Theatre Wales, to be created and directed by Gavin Porter.

This devised project will deal with death, memory, loss and how music forms part of the healing process.

The process will be supportive and explorative. The work will be fuelled by the lead artist’s own documentary footage, delving into the way we celebrate lives once they have been lived.

This production will be created, rehearsed and performed in…

PETULA

August 012, National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru bring you a brand-new adaptation of Fabrice Melquiot’s extraordinary play, Wanted Petula.

Directed by Mathilde Lopez, with a blistering script by Daf James blending Welsh, English and a little French, this production promises to be a giddy fairy tale and a surreal visual feast.

Petula is a dark, playful and piercing show about growing up,…

GO TELL THE BEES - CASTING

Over the last four years National Theatre Wales has been embedded in the communities of Pembrokeshire, West Wales, working with the people of the county on creative projects exploring climate change and the environment.

This Spring, the work is culminating in Go Tell The Bees, a new short film for families, co-created with the Pembrokeshire community, that will tell a moving story of our human connection to nature and to each other.…

And so this is Christmas

and what have we done?

Another year over.

One of the best things about my 2020 (it’s a short list) is that I’ve managed to start volunteering, in a kitchen for a charity in Cardiff. Beyond my millennial propensity for virtue signalling, I mention this because it really has felt like a shot in the arm in a year in which our industry has been paralysed and purpose and meaning have not been the easiest things to keep a grip…