Come along and see
Toad of Toad Hall this Sat 25th July-1st Aug at St Fagans Open Air Theatre. AA Milne's celebrated adaptation of Wind in the Willows promises to be rollicking good fun with its crazy characters and uproarious comedy. This mad-cap caper featuring foot-tapping songs is guaranteed to provide fun to children of all ages, from 5 to 105!
Performed by Everyman Theatre. Directed by Simon Futty. Music arranged by Alex Joannides.
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Added by Alex Joannides on July 20, 2009 at 23:46 —
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I’m in Wales for the week, hoping to pin down an idea. What am I looking for? Not sure. What’s my idea? I don’t know yet. Where am I going? The Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia, Anglesey, the Pembrokeshire coast. What am I doing here? Looking at the light. Recording the weather. Walking. Thinking. Talking. Hoping to find something. Hoping to pin down an idea.
A forecast:
The week will begin in the Brecon Beacons, somewhere high up. There’ll be flat skies, a cold front (very… Continue
Added by David Harradine on July 20, 2009 at 9:30 —
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Am spending a day at the 'Do the Arts Speak' Digital seminar at Sadlers Wells in London. I was asked to speak on a panel about how National Theatre Wales is using social networking to develop its community. Some of the usual stuff comes up: 'What about people who just want to watch a show' 'how do we guarantee quality'... Not sure they are very interesting questions, and we quickly move on to discuss what is interesting - and how new things emerge when people collaborate and interact. Someone…
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Added by National Theatre Wales on July 17, 2009 at 3:05 —
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Hi.
My first short film "is elvis there?" is showing at Latitude Festival this Sunday as part of Ditto.tv 's presentation. If you're going to be there (and it doesn't clash with Tom Yorke's set) please come and see it!
If you can't make the festival, you can see it in low-res here:
http://www.thesmalls.com/members/orangepeel/films/is-elvis-there-.go
Have a great weekend.
Neil.
Added by Neil Bebber on July 16, 2009 at 2:08 —
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Over the last few months, I've found it really interesting to unintentionally discover different ethics in other branches of religion. And it's made me review what I think about God. I wrote an essay about who I thought was the greatest Briton; I wrote about Darwin, after much deliberation, and his theory about creation, something I fully believe in. It was mesmerising to see his faith being tested through each new discovery and happening in his life. His take on life itself was very…
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Added by Chris Jenkins on July 16, 2009 at 1:55 —
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Cardiff, New Theatre
Plymouth, Theatre Royal
Edinburgh, Festival Theatre
Birmingham, Hippodrome
Bath, Theatre…
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Added by Ace McCarron on July 15, 2009 at 11:30 —
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'Faction Collective' - the same team that brought Patrick Jones' sell-out production "Revelation" return to Chapter this September with Anthony Neilson's critically acclaimed "The Censor"
"The Censor" premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in association with The Red Room in April 1997 and subsequently transferred to the Royal Court Theatre.
A gripping brief encounter between a pornographic artist and the man with the…
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Added by Stacey Daly on July 15, 2009 at 10:33 —
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Just a reminder that tomorrow lunchtime is the deadline for
PeerGrouP workshop offer.
The 24h workshop will take place from 21st to 22nd August in Drenthe, Holland and you will, along with other Theatre-makers from all over the world share and experience PeerGrouP's intensive and immersive approach to Theatre and Performance making.
We are looking for…
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Added by Mathilde Lopez on July 14, 2009 at 23:53 —
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For those still interested, here are some snippets of reviews for 'Last Seen', the
Slung Low show that has just finished at the
Almeida:
“Frustrating, fascinating and potent... a startling heartbreaker.”
The Times
“Poignant, strange and totally arresting.”
The London Paper
“Charming, whimsical and touching.”
Time Out
“An…
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Added by Matthew David Scott on July 14, 2009 at 4:49 —
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As if we didn't have enough fantastic opportunities to offer, we are thrilled to be one of the PEACH placements in this year's Cultural Leadership Programme. We are offering a year with us as Associate Producer, to work alongside me and the team in delivering our launch year programme. Info attached here.
Placement Associate Producer NTW.pdf
Added by Lucy Davies on July 13, 2009 at 10:38 —
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A FESTIVAL GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU BLYSH...
A human balloon, a super sexy torch singer, a group of middle-aged moaning punk rockers and WOW on the Waterfront’s spectacular aerial show are among the weird and wonderful performers taking over the Wales Millennium Centre this summer.
The first-ever Blysh Festival of carnival and vaudeville arts kicks off in colourful fashion at the Wales Millennium Centre from Friday, July 17 to Sunday,…
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Added by Gareth Lloyd Roberts on July 12, 2009 at 23:54 —
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Hey Cardiff community!
I am a theatre/performance creator from Canada who is doing a residency at Chapter Arts Centre where I will presenting a performance in Spring of 2010. The piece is entitled "Hamletown" and is experimental mash up of theatre, performance art, rock concert, dance, film and installation.
I am looking for performers for the project that will rehearse in April and May of 2010 with a couple days of workshop in November of 2009. I am extremely open to…
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Added by Chad Dembski on July 12, 2009 at 23:31 —
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After the success of the RNT's transmisison of 'Live' theatre in Cineworld and other cinemas, now comes another first, this time for Sky digital television: Theatre Live. And for anyone involved in theatre in any way, shape or form, this has to be required viewing.
For those without Sky and Sky Arts 1 in particular the premise is this. Six novelists, with no prior playwriting experience, are asked to write a 30 minute play for televison to be broadcast 'live' on Sky Arts 1, at 9.00pm…
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Added by Stephen Alan Whitehead on July 12, 2009 at 21:27 —
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Tonight - 13th July and Tuesday 14th July.
The Mabinogion presented by a cast of 300 teenagers (working with more than 20 artists) with brass and samba bands, interactive digital projections, puppetry, carnival, dance, storytelling, circus, magic and big spectacle.
See www.theatrharlech for info. Starts at 8.30pm in Castle carpark. Running time about 90 minutes.
(Interesting to see how many crossover points there are in this style of theatre with our NTW debates…
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Added by Peter Cox MBE on July 12, 2009 at 19:31 —
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Wales Millennium Centre
Come Fly With Me
6 August 2009, 7pm
7 August 2009, 2pm and 7pm
Tickets £12
Under 16s \ Students \ Over 60s \ Unwaged \ Disabled patrons £10.80
Groups 10+ £10.80
Starring Mark Moraghan
Come Fly With Me is an exciting new Big Band Musical Comedy based on the exploits of a Pan Am aircrew in Las Vegas in the…
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Added by Chris Jenkins on July 12, 2009 at 5:00 —
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Hi I am Guy one of the Arts Development Officers in Bridgend. The council own a building in Porthcawl harbour called the Jennings Building. Its a very large disused warehouse, I use it for painting Bridgend youth theatre scenery. The site is part of the planned regeneration of Porthcawl ,given the current economic climate nothing is likely to happen in the near future.
If any designers or creatives wanting space think it may be suitable for them then please contact me to see if I can…
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Added by Guy O'Donnell on July 12, 2009 at 4:19 —
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I have been really interested in the development of the NTW values as evidenced through this site, and have been having a few thoughts. I have worked in the arts in South Wales and NE England and obviously have a keen interest in their development. (there is a wonderful photographic exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff called
No Such Thing As Society at the moment )
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=3708
The recent NTW Felice Varini blog posts…
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Added by Guy O'Donnell on July 11, 2009 at 20:30 —
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Wednesday 15 July 2009
The Riverfront, Newport, 7.00 pm
Tickets: £2.00
Academi have once again joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to organise the Welsh Heat of their UK Performance Poetry Slam. Heats will be held across the UK in nine BBC regions and will see established slammers battle it out to be crowned heat winner on their home turf. The two winners from each heat will then go on to compete in the semi-finals which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
The judging…
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Added by Terry Victor on July 11, 2009 at 6:33 —
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The house next door is only intermittently occupied, and their guttering has blocked up. Starlings use the gutters as communal baths, and I use the starlings to keep me from writing.
Added by Gary Owen on July 11, 2009 at 3:00 —
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Back in May the Cardiff Shakespeare Readers spent a glorious evening studying the Sonnets, perhaps the most concentrated form of play-writing in verse since Chaucer. Each sonnet becomes a stepping stone along a young man's path through life; something mirrored by Hogarth in his cartoons of the Rake's Progress a century plus later.
Studying several, but not all, of the sonnets we brought out the truth of them, the hidden meanings which, if they'd been studied that way when I was at…
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Added by Stephen Alan Whitehead on July 11, 2009 at 1:33 —
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