On Sunday 7th June at 7.15pm Theatr Iolo is presenting rehearsed readings of two exciting contemporary German plays in translation.
KLAMM'S WAR by Kai Hensel ( translated by Mario Golden and Andreas Robertz)
Directed by Caroline Bunce. Performed by John Norton.
Klamm enters his classroom and is confronted by a wall of silence. His students have declared war, blaming him for what happened to a fellow pupil. Can Klamm defend himself?This elegant award winning monologue… Continue
Not wanting to sound too naff - but really am about to...
I love it when the sun shines, not just because of the warmth and the fact people smile at each other but from an LDs perspective, I love the quality of light, the long sharp shadows in the afternoon, the subtle shifts in colours on the leaves in Bute park.
The changing colours on buildings, particularily around the museum. Has anyone else noticed the subtle hues of pink?
As for the sunsets, just joyouss and always… Continue
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Just to let you know my new play; 'The cloak room' will be performed on Thursday 4th and Saturday 6th June at 8:45 at The Sherman as part of the Egin: Springboard Festival, before going to the Smithsonian Festival in Washington. Hope you can make it!
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'one man, one garage, lots of coats' The Cloak roomby tracy harris
Directed by Amy hodge
Cast: Roger Evans and Siwan Morris
I thought I would take this opportunity to say hi and explain what we are up to. I believe that what National Theatre of Wales are proposing to achieve is very exciting and I believe it to be an essential stepping stone to enable Wales’s Theatre and the arts to flourish, In order to make theatre more accessible to everyone.
Real Live Theatre Company (RLT) are a fairly new company which aim to create visually arresting experimental theatre which appeals to a diverse… Continue
During my London visit this week, I spent a day in the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) where I saw 6 shows as part of their BURST Festival.
The theme this year was '51 Reasons for Living', inspired by Barack Obama's presidential acceptance speech and they managed to pack 51 performances into this 16-day festival. Some of these were plays, some were installations, some were performance poetry, some were gigs, some were journeys for one person with a… Continue
I have just come back from spending a wonderful evening watching a fantastic theatre event. It was in London and it was a play by a young Welsh company.
Just an observation and thought to myself but put here because I can....I'm looking at the photographs of the housewarming party and find myself recognising very few people and am wondering how this could be so after being involved in the making of performance works here in Wales since 1991?I know that I can be an unsociable oik at times and Good Cop bad Cops' works dont always have mass appeal(until recently) but still...I wonder if this really is the beginning of something new and… Continue
Black RAT's latest production will be touring South Wales this summer!
Following successful productions of A ZOO STORY, MISS JULIE and OEDIPUS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM is Black RAT’s latest offering to tour South Wales. With a thirteen-strong cast, this lively & energetic version of ‘The Dream’ guarantees all the fun, farce and mayhem of Shakespeare’s best loved comedy.
A royal wedding, eloping lovers, spurned friendships, an am-dram troop and a wood full of… Continue
While the sun shines unashamadly down on the borderlands - I'm on the last leg of an early morning train n' bus trip to Hay on Wye - land of books. As a theatre type I'm used to Edinburgh. I've never done Glastonbury as I have a tent phobia (if God had meant us to sleep in tents he would have given us inflatable backsides) though I have promised to do the Green Man in I this year which does look fab and where they have assured me that the tents are actually small bungalows in disguise. Anyway,… Continue
I was wondering if I could ask some people's advice?
I don't quite know how to word it, but...
I was wondering if it's possible to invite literary agents or something along them lines to the SpringBoard event at the Sherman, to see my play, Sunflowered?
I haven't a clue about this sort of thing, and was in need of some help:
If it's possible, how many are around in Cardiff, what's the best way of approaching this.. etc.
Not a very exciting post title I know, the world of blogging is unchartered waters for me. Excited to join this world and that of National Theatre Wales community. What a great idea and a way to communicate with like minded people.
Currently I'm working on the RWCMDs production of Duchess of Malfi on at Sherman Cymru until tomorrow night.
My next lighting design is Sweeny Todd for WNO Max in July, so a bit of a theme of revenge and violence in two very different mediums and period… Continue
For those of you (Nathan, Catherine) who have been trying to add events, we are reserving the 'EVENTS' section of the site for our own National Theatre Wales activities. So do as you are all joyfully doing and use the blogs and forums to talk about what you're all up to. Lucy D
In a Hire Fiat with Lucy D on the road after a night of Mary Stuart at Clwyd. Good to spend some time looking around the venue and thinking about possibilities. Being a long term urbanite I always find it extraordinary to look out from Theatr Clwyd onto hills and fields and a smallish town where I lived for five barely remembered years. Feel like I am in a Chekhov but with a Fiat on hand to solve the existential travel issues. Lucy D is a mean driver. Schiller's Queen Elizabeth on the road but… Continue
Hi all. We are a group of graduates at from the University of Glamorgan and are all based in Cardiff. It is a mixture of young British theatre makers who have worked on a script by a new group of writers. It is a stage comedy based around a TV chatshow, with surreal characters and situations. Although this is not a show for the easilly offended, we hope it has something for every, also it is free entry. The details are lsited below and hope to see you there.
Dan… Continue
I'm with Nathan - can't work out how to post an event, so have to plug it in a blog post instead.
Script is running a workshop entitled Unearthing the Bomb: Writing Political Theatre at the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford, on Saturday 13th June 2009.
Led by Alan Pollock, the workshop will explore the use of research and documentary elements in popular drama. How much truth, and how much art should be employed? What do we mean by 'political' theatre? What kind of resources… Continue
Today i was looking at pictures of the National Theatre of Wales' shop in the arcade where everyone went and had crepes. It was nice to see so many familiar faces that i could put names to. I saw Gareth Bale and Mared Swain and Stephen Burkitt-Harrington. That is three faces and nearly enough names for four people thanks to Stephen. I saw the backs of some heads which were also familiar but obviously harder to put names to.
It does my heart no end of good to see Stephen serving posh drinks… Continue