Bianca Winter's Posts - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-19T09:47:09ZBianca Winterhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/BiancaWinterhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2986242224?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=09ou4jg9adj39&xn_auth=noCan I help?tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2013-06-14:3152760:BlogPost:1595702013-06-14T15:32:24.000ZBianca Winterhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/BiancaWinter
<p>Here's a peek at one of the films Hugh Hughes made whilst on Anglesey, which played a huge part in the show that he made, which is now on at Theatr Fach, and will next week be on at Canolfan Ucheldre. Hugh's Nain would say "Never think that what can you do is too little" - so on that note, what <strong>shall</strong> we do?</p>
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<p>Here's a peek at one of the films Hugh Hughes made whilst on Anglesey, which played a huge part in the show that he made, which is now on at Theatr Fach, and will next week be on at Canolfan Ucheldre. Hugh's Nain would say "Never think that what can you do is too little" - so on that note, what <strong>shall</strong> we do?</p>
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</p>Reality is a many layered thingtag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2013-06-06:3152760:BlogPost:1588552013-06-06T14:00:00.000ZBianca Winterhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/BiancaWinter
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2999377027?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2999377027?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a> I've been thinking a lot this last week about layers as I've been trying to articulate what it is that's so magical about Hugh Hughes returning home.</p>
<p>So, here's Llangefni (this shot is a perfectly illustrative image, taken from the Courtyard of the Bull Hotel, Llangefni). It's a town that has been standing for hundreds of years. Let's turn the lens of time to the…</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2999377027?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2999377027?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a>I've been thinking a lot this last week about layers as I've been trying to articulate what it is that's so magical about Hugh Hughes returning home.</p>
<p>So, here's Llangefni (this shot is a perfectly illustrative image, taken from the Courtyard of the Bull Hotel, Llangefni). It's a town that has been standing for hundreds of years. Let's turn the lens of time to the period between 1968 and 2013. The chances are that the town hasn't changed a great deal in that time - the town plan, though no doubt enlarged as more houses were built, and 'enhanced' by treasures like the one-way system, will have been relatively static. Some of the buildings will have changed, but many will be the same, standing proud in the face of the forty five years we're now thinking about. Landscapes, largely, remain, and people come and go - there's nothing new about that. What interests me, though, is the way that we create a town as we grow up in it, our worlds expanding from the crib and the pushchair to the garden, the school, the woods, the shops and beyond...</p>
<p>A few years ago, I went back to the area I grew up in - a small suburb of Sheffield, unremarkable (but gloriously hilly). I was interested in experiencing a landscape that was once so familiar. There were metal fences everywhere, preventing me from traversing my old routes to school, to my Nan's house, to the fields, but other than this minor annoyance, the place was relatively unchanged. Unchanged, that is, aside from the scale of it: it had definitely shrunk. A walk that might have seemed like an epic trek when I was small took less than ten minutes, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the length of my legs that brought the distance down. So I concluded that the reason the place used to be so big was because it held all my memories of growing up - it had to stretch to contain all my experiences of those streets, fields and buildings. When I left, I took the memories with me, so the town, obviously, no longer had to hold them.</p>
<p>I know that's a sentimental way to describe an ordinary phenomenon about spatial perception, but it is compelling. In Llangefni this year, I've been privy to the description of a town in the sixties and seventies, I've seen Hugh Hughes walking streets that I've known through the internet and imagined through stories, I've discovered a new landscape and I've helped Hugh to draw a version of the town on top of itself through the ears. Many layers, indeed, and if the chance to be part of many layers of a town - those in your mind and those created by someone else - is not a good enough reason to be in Llangefni this June, then I don't know what is.</p>Anglesey has its own Monopoly!tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2013-05-16:3152760:BlogPost:1567472013-05-16T14:30:00.000ZBianca Winterhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/BiancaWinter
<p>My second trip to Anglesey turned up this gem:</p>
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<p>I'm a bit of a sucker for franchises like Monopoly (yes, I have the Sheffield version, my own hometown) - even though I know some big corporation is making money from my new penchant for the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys M<span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">ôn, as I now know it), buying it was a heartening experience. I…</span></p>
<p>My second trip to Anglesey turned up this gem:</p>
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<p>I'm a bit of a sucker for franchises like Monopoly (yes, I have the Sheffield version, my own hometown) - even though I know some big corporation is making money from my new penchant for the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys M<span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">ôn, as I now know it), buying it was a heartening experience. I bought it in Menai Bridge, and the lady on the checkout desk was very proud to point out that the very store she worked in was on the board! H</span>ere's to local pride in spite of large corporations.</p>
<p>Now, I just have to find some friendly people that will play Monopoly with an ex-offender... I cheated many times as a youth (my sisters didn't like adding up, so I always had the 'opportunity' presented by being banker), and was only caught when I confessed. I am a reformed player now, but funnily enough, my blackened reputation preceeds me. What's childhood without a bit of sibling rivalry, though?</p>
<p>Hugh Hughes made his last show with his siblings... in fact a number of times almost didn't make a show with his siblings, because somehow the people we grow up with know just how to wind us up. That show was so massive that lots of the stories the trio uncovered were woven into an online incarnation of their family home. It's still live, if you'd like to explore it, at <a href="http://www.invisibletownstories.co.uk">www.invisibletownstories.co.uk</a></p>
<p>More soon - and any offers for a game of Monopoly welcome!</p>Anglesey for the first time!tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2013-05-14:3152760:BlogPost:1568142013-05-14T11:35:59.000ZBianca Winterhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/BiancaWinter
<p>I grew up in a landlocked county (South Yorkshire) and don't have much recollection of trips to the Great British coast, though many of my friends spent summer holidays in Filey, Skegness, Mablethorpe and Saltfleet. </p>
<p>I didn't know what to expect from my first trip to Anglesey. My reconnaisance mission through my role as Digital Producer with Hoipolloi took place in February 2013, and though I intended on working on the train between Cambridge and Bangor, this sight of the North Wales…</p>
<p>I grew up in a landlocked county (South Yorkshire) and don't have much recollection of trips to the Great British coast, though many of my friends spent summer holidays in Filey, Skegness, Mablethorpe and Saltfleet. </p>
<p>I didn't know what to expect from my first trip to Anglesey. My reconnaisance mission through my role as Digital Producer with Hoipolloi took place in February 2013, and though I intended on working on the train between Cambridge and Bangor, this sight of the North Wales coast caught my gaze, and held it for the remainder of the journey.</p>
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<p>That's where my love affair with Anglesey began... Lucky, then, to be working with Hugh Hughes, who grew up in Llangefni, to make his new show 'Things I Forgot I Remembered'!</p>
<p>I'll be sharing my experience of Anglesey, and any little bits of creative team gossip, over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, I can be found on twitter - @hellohoipolloi - and you can explore Hugh's website <a href="http://www.hughhughes.me">www.hughhughes.me</a> to find out more about Anglesey's own son.</p>