Hi NTW Community!

Sorry for being quiet the last couple of days I have been rushed off my feet! 

The Golden Cowpat has been taking over my life! I have been flyering for hours everyday! We have had lots of venues and industry people in to watch the show, which is very exciting for…

Tim Price posted this in the Writers Group earlier today:

Is it time National Theatre Wales or The Sherman Cymru supported Welsh theatre but copying Northern Stage's Edinburgh model?

This year Northern Stage, the Newcastle based theatre, took over St Stephen's venue in Edinburgh and curated a series of plays by North East writers, and North East theatre companies. Northern Stage organised box office, promotion and even accomdation. 

Every year…

It's that time of year again! Taking Flight Theatre Company are looking for actors for their forthcoming tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream touring to outdoor venues accross Wales.  Rehearsals and touring April - July 2013 with the possibilty of an extension in August.  Taking Flight actively encourage applications from disabled or sensory impaired actors.  For information about the company please visit…

I look tired. I feel tired but its not surprising as for the last two weeks i've been holed up in the beautiful Elan Valley with these 17 artists and a documentary maker. 

If you don't know where it is, this is how to get there from Cardiff:…

TaikaBox is a Cardiff-based company that makes work for stage, screen and site, integrating technology with the moving body.

Choreographer Tanja Raman and artist John Collingswood will be working with 5 dancers and 2 musicians throughout the Autumn to create a full-length dance work called Beyond the Body.

This performance will tour to 5 Welsh venues in November.

There is an opportunity for an artist to…

Last year we launched WalesLab, our five year artist development initiative funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, offering artists the opportunity to apply for short residencies to develop an idea or piece of work. In the last 12 months we’ve seen projects happen from Castell Coch to Capelulo, Cardiff Airport to Cilgerran, and Castlemartin to places that don’t begin with C. What matters most is the ideas these projects develop and pursue, and now we're on the hunt for more projects to…

Here's some pics from the last few weeks in the Elan Valley

This is the books/DVD/rubber duck library. Proved very useful for me

Elan Valley Lodge…

Hello! From wet and windy Edinburgh!

So on Thursday evening I walked up to the Udderbelly box office and played box office roulette. I asked what the next show on was and they said The Vocal Orchestra. I cringed, as I had been hoping that there would have been something more theatrical on, and asked what the next show on was but that finished a…

Greetings from Berlin where I have sojourned following the incredible adventure that was Adain Avion.

For those who missed it here's a short film of the three nesting sites (160 events) captured by NTW regular film maker Simon Clode.

Enjoy!

M x

http://vimeo.com/47775757

Dates:

19^th Sept tech rehearsal at Pontardawe Arts Centre

20^th Sept show in Hereford Courtyard

21^st Sept show in Pontardawe Arts Centre

22^nd Sept show in Brecon, Theatr Brycheiniog

23^rd day off

24^th day off

25^th Sept show in Carmarthen, The Lyric

26^th Sept show in Cardiff, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

[For this…

Created by Kim Epton & Lee Davies 

Cymru* Kosova

By Jeton Neziraj

Sometime in the late fall of 1996, as an asylum seeker in Germany back then, I used to work in the construction business. I worked on a so-called “Baustelle” in the vicinity of Bonn. It just so happened that on one of those boring rainy days, I would work with some of the workers that claimed to be from Wales. Strong bearded men they were, these Welshmen, who rolled their tobacco…

14. EXT.NIGHT.GRASS VERGE- SALVATION HOUSE.

FLY BOY is motionless face down on the grass embankment directly beneath his room, grasping the BROWN PAPER BAG. ELIJAH moves close kneeling beside him checking his pulse.

CLEM, MUSTAFA, DOC and DEWI approach gathering around, looking on as ELIJAH takes the walkie talkie from his belt.

ELIJAH

(On walkie talkie)

            Night…

7. INT. NIGHT RECEPTION-GROUND FLOOR

ELIJAH sits at the desk eyeing the television monitor, flicking through different location of the building.

ELIJAH

(To self)

            Dewi, Dewi, Dewi where are you?

He leans back in the chair his eye is drawn to a TUBA CASE in the corner of reception; he smiles.

8. INT.NIGHT. ROOM THIRTY…

...but no one likes sandy feet, not even Lily.

"Edgy". The word renders my teeth so. Humour puffed-up as "edgy" makes me think of Woody Allen's quip about satire not being as effective as bricks and baseball bats. English satire on the BBC, of which I tire, encourages us, say, in the face of Murdoch influence in the police and at No10, to snigger, sneer and have another pint. When Jonathan Swift reached for his pen, it became a baseball bat, and 'Gulliver's Travels' was being read 'from the Cabinet Office to the nursery'. Such is the…

Trailer for the theater play PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqOqX_AtWk&feature=endscreen

The performance is a part of an artist-run research project "Views: Personal Histories of Serbs and Albanians", which was carried out in collaboration of Kulturanova and Qendra Multimedia during 2010.

MILENA BOGAVAC, a dramaturge from Belgrade, and JETON…

New 10 week Course - Developing your Writers Voice and Getting that Script finished

Begins Tuesday Evenings at Bridgend College Sept 18th 

This course will explore unlocking your artists voice, tapping into your unique talent and developing the story that only you can tell. It will empower you to write.

Julia Cameron (The Artists Way) has given me her blessing to teach the exercises and her approach to developing the…