This year's Dylan Thomas Festival is underway, and runs at the Dylan Thomas Centre until 9 Novmeber. There's plenty of drama to enjoy: on 28 October Rhodri Miles plays Richard Burton in Gwynne Thomas' new one man show, 'Burton'.
Swansea actor Adrian Metcalfe performs his show, 'Reminiscences of Childhood', on 1 November. It's a funny and moving piece based on Dylan Thomas writing, interwoven with Metcalfe's own prose.
Out of Order Theatre Co present Tail of Two Dogs by…
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Added by Dylan Thomas Centre on October 28, 2009 at 5:18 —
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We are delighted to announce that our brand new website is now live and invite you to come and visit us at
www.dramawales.org.uk
It has news, views, information on the services we provide (including the largest English language drama lending library in the world), and notices of future events in the DAW calendar.
If your group is a member of DAW, please contact us with…
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Added by Drama Association of Wales on October 28, 2009 at 4:23 —
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A spoken word and comedy night starring DOMINIC BERRY, Manchester's finest spoken word artist and the UK's premiere queer vegan poet! Also: poet DAVID E OPRAVA, comic PSYCHO DAVE, performance poet SUE HAMBLEN, stand-up GARETH BRAND and comic compere MAB JONES.
Only £5 / £4 concs
7.30pm Monday 2nd Novemeber at The Promised Land, Windsor Place, Cardiff
Sponsored by Academi mab_jones@lycos.com 078 4648… Continue
Added by Mab Jones on October 28, 2009 at 2:44 —
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We have quite a few candles in National Theatre Wales' offices.
Does anyone want one? Or a bunch?
Please reply below! x
Added by Catherine Paskell on October 27, 2009 at 4:27 —
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Some have said yes. Others share my enthusiasm for their Meatball wraps (yum!)
I have seen so many changes to my city centre... from Blues moving to Leckwith Stadium to seeing St Davids 2 hosting my favourite convenience food stall, Pret A Manger!
I wondered what for you are the biggest changes in your towns and which are for the best?
Do you have pictures? x…
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Added by Catherine Paskell on October 27, 2009 at 2:30 —
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Thought I'd post about this here because I'm sure there's a lot of overlap between the people involved in theatre and film making inwales.
As Mathilde Lopez has already mentioned
here, It's my shout is a series of short films made annually to give people who want to get into the film industry a chance to work on real films with a full…
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Added by Mei Lewis on October 27, 2009 at 2:00 —
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Dance Bytes: Work in Progress
An evening of stimulating, new and experimental dance
Friday 27th November 2009
Performances at 5.30pm & 8pm
The Studio at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Tickets £8 (includes a glass of wine after the performance)
Box office 029 2030 4400
Dance Bytes, Welsh Independent Dance's unique choreographic development scheme, provides choreographers with the opportunity to create work through three stages of…
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Added by WID on October 27, 2009 at 0:38 —
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Hello everyone! Some of you might remember our game Phone Box Frenzy, which was played at Septembers Sandpit event. The game was developed whilst we were devising our new show HiddenCity, an interactive theatrical experience which looks at the rapidly changing face of Swansea and sends the audience out to follow clues and find secret performances in the City Centre.
The show will run on Sat 31st October & Sat 7th November and starts @ Swansea MET Dynevor Campus at 12noon, so if…
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Added by Stephen Donnelly on October 26, 2009 at 10:34 —
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Kayd Somali Arts and Culture Presents
Somali Week Festival 2009
Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG
Friday 23 October to 31 October 2009
Kayd Somali Arts and culture in partnership with REDSEA-ONLINE.COM, and a range of national, international and local community organisations is pleased to present the Somali Week Festival as part of Black History Month.
The SWF is an established festival within the Somali community in…
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Added by Catherine Paskell on October 26, 2009 at 3:11 —
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Hi all,
It’s My Shout's short film selection will be transmitted tonight on BBC2, make sure you catch it.
It's my Shout is an organisation originally set up in Bridgend which offers practical experience in film, television and media for young people who would not normally be able to access such opportunities.
It is also a recognised National Short Film Scheme supported by…
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Added by Mathilde Lopez on October 26, 2009 at 2:53 —
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My housemate Alaw is going home for Halloween so she carved our pumpkin last week. He is so fab I wanted to share him with you. His name is Jack and he is a scary work of art.
Added by Catherine Paskell on October 26, 2009 at 2:38 —
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It’s just a week and a bit now until November 5, when we’ll be announcing the first year’s programme for National Theatre Wales. If you are wondering where your party invite is, it’s coming this week, but it’s not for your usual kind of party! In line with our digital, eco-friendly approach, our season launch will be an online event – with everything announced in a livecast at nationaltheatrewales.org at 12.30 on the 5th. We’ll be doing the…
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Added by National Theatre Wales on October 25, 2009 at 6:00 —
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I'm new to this, but found it by chance so thought I'd sign up!
I'm a TV/Film/Theatre composer from the Rhondda, based in London...
Thought I'd say hello...
Added by AdamLewisMusic on October 23, 2009 at 2:58 —
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Exciting news, as Ludus Ludius (Cardiff, Wales) are now casting for their two new improvisation productions that are due to be performed monthly.
We need two players, one musician and one technician for both shows. That means we are looking for double that list, as there are TWO shows.
Spread the word, as our big news needs is too exciting for control. To apply to any of the positions all you have to do is email…
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Added by Nathan Keates on October 22, 2009 at 5:00 —
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How fantastic! It's just been announced that Marc Rees is the winner of the Cultural Olympiad project Artists Taking the Lead for Wales - congratulations to Marc and to his producer Sian Thomas and everyone behind the bid.
Here's the scoop
We are all v proud and v excited at National Theatre Wales. Well done xxxxx
Added by Lucy Davies on October 21, 2009 at 21:45 —
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Added by Ellie Carter on October 21, 2009 at 10:30 —
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Added by Ellie Carter on October 21, 2009 at 7:00 —
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We want your feedback! All of you! Please!
Our Community is now 5 Months old and has reached over 1000 members. And it's all been down to you. Thank you!
Our Launch Year Programme is about to be announced in 2 weeks and we want to ask all of YOU for YOUR feedback on YOUR own experiences of YOUR Online Community.
Your responses to our quick survey will really help to influence the development of the Online Community, including everything from the design to…
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Added by Catherine Paskell on October 21, 2009 at 2:48 —
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I can't sign out!
Recently some people have had problems signing out of the National Theatre Wales community website (or "logging out", same thing). The problem: when you click Sign Out, it just remains signed in. If you have this problem, this post will probably help.
The problem is usually caused by old cookies. These are little text files saved locally on your computer which help to preserve your preferences between visits. To solve the problem, you can delete…
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Added by Carl Morris on October 20, 2009 at 8:00 —
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In terms of my relationship to the theatre and performing arts I am a keen audience member as well as a theorist. I have a strong belief that theatre can be used not only as entertainment but also as a form of education and therapy. In my third year of my BA I did a lot of work on T.I.E and formed a group which toured schools for a term, we had a great deal of success with this project which aimed to use theatre as a tool to teach the curriculum, but also I think it had the effect of making…
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Added by Kirsty Wilcox on October 20, 2009 at 6:25 —
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