Our friends at BBC Writersroom have just released an incredibly exciting and ambitious new piece of work online.  Working with leading UK writers and a top production team, The Last Hours of Laura K is a ground-breaking digital experience placing the audience at the heart of the story. Using 24 hours of footage from the fictional surveillance programme, SaturnEye, this is a disconcertingly intimate, unfiltered and impartial look into Laura’s last hours before her death. As Kate…

... is now also available on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/123570002

This short film has  been described as a 'bonkers mash-up of Midsummer Night's Dream and Blair Witch Project. Ukippers won't like it, matriarchists might. Have a look and see what you think.

Calling all Creatives! Id like to invite you to participate in our new project. We are also looking for Welsh actors, please send me your CV if interested? 

PENDERYN

Found Arts are developing a new play about the workers uprising of 1831. This event resulted in the unjust hanging of Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) in Cardiff.

We are looking for anyone interested in local heritage, research and theatre to take part in the…

Story Writing Competition – Machynlleth Comedy Festival

Would you like to have your story performed at Wales’ finest comedy festival?  This year we are pleased to announce the very first Mach-a-nory Story night at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, on Saturday 2^nd May 2015.…

SUMMERCAMP – 2015

WalesLab is National Theatre Wales’ (NTW) initiative for emerging artists and new theatre ideas and offers research and development residencies across the landscape of Wales year round. It supports artists at different stages of their careers to develop new ideas and collaborations across the country.

Summercamp, the highlight of the WalesLab calendar, takes 20 artists somewhere secluded for two weeks to explore ideas, form new collaborations,…

When rescue from a zombie apocalypse takes longer than expected, the truth comes out in the flat where four friends wait to be saved.

We're looking for actors for this play. It is about 45-50 minutes long and the performances are at Cardiff YMCA (The Walk, near Newport Road) on 29th & 30th May, with a dress rehearsal on 28th.

The characters are two male and two female, all in their mid/ late twenties (although there is some flexibility with…

To A Young Poet from OTHNIEL SMITH on Vimeo.

"It is the specific details that are closer to universal truths", said Mathilde Lopez (Artistic Director of August 012) during the round table discussion following friday’s performance of Politics Explained to My Grandchildren: A Bildungsroman About Europe.  This idea of using minute aspects of personal stories to build larger ____ is integral to the W.I.S.E Project’s success. The aim of which is to create micro-histories of a community that will lead to a greater understanding of…

Due to a few people dropping out, I am looking to replace members of the ensemble who will be performing on-stage in Swansea Grand Theatre as part of the Godspell UK Tour.

At this late stage, I would welcome contact from people who either read music or are able to pick things up VERY quickly.

The show is Tuesday 21st April, Swansea Grand…

Howwws Things? 

To start with I hope you're well.

Yes YOU, whoever YOU are.

I sincerely hope YOU are well and having a good time.

This is a blog…

This week we say goodbye to the cast and SM team of Crouch Touch Pause Engage as they continue on the tour in ENGLAND!

We will see them on the way and at the Arcola Theatre in London.

We have 2 more shows in Bridgend tomorrow - there was a brilliant Post Show Discussion last night, which included Max Stafford-Clark, Robin Soans and Alfie himself.

Thanks all - Good luck on the tour!

THE MATTHEW PURNELL SHOW

Having been invited to the launch of the Hijinx Unity Festival 2015 programme I arrived at the Senedd, the venue for the launch, with plenty of time to spare. I didn’t however fully prepare for the degree of security that was necessary to endure to enter to the building. Pockets emptied, jacket and belt off I escaped triggering the magic eye as I entered the other side.

My face was a shade of perplexing purple as I grappled to keep…

 We're pleased to announce the first TEAM Choir - "The Cardiff Sound Collective" is starting soon.

To join up, read up, or perhaps see how to start up your own TEAM Choir take a look at the event below:

http://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/events/team-choir-the-cardiff-sound-collective

Tomorrow afternoon 3 Actors and 10 participants all +65 will be performing 3 plays written from their words of their memories. What do they remember?

POLITICS TAUGHT TO MY GRANDCHILDREN

A Bildungsroman about Europe

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Job Opportunity

Ushers for Mother Courage and her Children – Paid role

We are looking for friendly and reliable TEAM members to be ushers for National Theatre Wales’s upcoming production Mother Courage and her Children in Merthyr Tydfil from…

We have been given the pleasure of working with three exciting European writers, find out more about them here . . . 

Katja von der Ropp studied theatre research, German literature and politics in Berlin and Helsinki. She co­founded the theatre group BRAND (www.brandschrift.de) and works as freelance dramaturg and director since 2009 and as translator (Finnish­German) since 2012. With BRAND she realized several productions as…

Can we change your mind? …