One of my favourite experiences of Edinburgh 2011 was Hotel Medea - an overnight re-imagining of the Medea story with a strong Brazilian flavour.  I'd promised to go months previously when I'd met one of the directors - Jorge Lopes Ramos - at an event in Cardiff, but I have to admit, when I turned up at the Summerhall venue at midnight at the end of a long day seeing shows, the idea of being stuck in a performance for the next six hours didn't feel like a good idea at all.  At the sight of…

The second round of voting has commenced to determine the winner of SuperAssembly.

After a week of voting the 3 proposals with most votes have gone through to a second round.

We need your vote - tell us which project should host SuperAssembly.

Vote for SuperAssembly

Hi All,

Just to point you towards an interesting opportunity...

The OSBTT Award was launched in 2003. It is an Award which is regularly evolving and seeking to be more ambitious. However, its brief remains the same, namely to support emerging artists of exceptional talent. Recent winners include Slung Low with Helium, Levantes Dance Theatre with Room Temperature Romance and the theatrical sensation, You Me Bum Bum Train.

The 2014 Award is for a company or…

A fabulous talk from Margaret Robertson on games and storytelling. She explores how stories are told through game and how they can exist beyond the video screen. The possibilities are endless when we look at 'cross pollinating' games with the world around us by utilising technological complexity and enhancement. The idea of players becoming collaborators rather than simply being an audience is at the heart of the work we do at yello…

“There were lovely subtleties that even now I’m remembering and beginning to be conscious of. It’s like there’s an overall picture that we’re only getting a glimpse of. Further chapters please.”

everwake participant

It's been just over a year since…

I am currently speed writing as I am about to be thrown out, not literally, of my local library computer room as there is a computer class starting here in the next ten minutes.

But I shall not complain. Most libraries were set up by subscriptions of ordinary working men and women who wanted a public educational resourse for the whole community. Can't afford a book, play etc? go to the library. Want that library shut down and replaced by a coffee shop or car park? Vote…

On Friday 19^th October the Council gave the approval for a new licensed premises in one of Cardiff’s renowned buildings, Harlech Court.  

The new Company Porter’s has two directors - Dave (Wilson) is the Director of Actorsworkshop. Dan (Porter) has just retired as an actor (his greatest triumph coming as ‘the fat one’ in a series of commercials for the UK’s No. 1 Lager).

Dan hopes this leap from one ridiculous…

The mash-up experiment continues.

New short film - based on the sonnet "To Fanny" by John Keats.

Less than ninety seconds long.

(Why are no girls named Fanny these days?)

https://vimeo.com/52783573

You sit. You open the A4 refill pad you just bought especially from ‘notepads anonymous’, knowing you've got cupboards bursting with notepads of various sizes. You stare at the blank page. You look around at the people chatting away about grandsons, leggings, vim and pneumonia and you look back at the page. Stretch the arms behind the head. Shake the writing hand pretentiously as if you’re about to write Wales’ answer to Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Nothing. You sit. You stare.

A word,…

Hello all,

I'd like to announce the upcoming TEAM event all the way down in sleepy little Haverfordwest.

"Home is......"

What is home to you, is it where you live, your home town or is it some place you visited once a long time ago that you just cant get out of your head.…

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME

De Gabay is a site specific theatre piece in Butetown, Cardiff in 2013. Funded by Gulbenkian Foundation.  Supported by the wider community, De Gabay focuses on young Somali poets & the tradition of poetry.

Step One Enterprises an innovative and forward thinking Community Social Enterprise, it was set up by a group of experienced, knowledgeable and qualified practitioners to meet the employment and social inclusion needs of…

And here's a peek at some of the footage taken ... have been editing it all today, looks AMAZING!

http://fusioninspire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/a-peek-at-film-scape.html

Will be touring live performance, film exhibition and bi-lingual arts installation from January 26th…

SuperAssembly is now ready for the first phase of public voting.  After a hectic few weeks of imaginations sparked, individuals inspired and proposals from across the whole of Wales we are ready for public voting phase one.  

So the way it will work is the first phase of public voting will run for a week.  The public have a choice of 7 proposals and the voting starts today Friday 2nd and finishes at midday,12:00 (24hr clock) on Friday 9th…

The 2nd part of Morfa Isaf film shoot this week .... catch up at my blog link below folks!

http://fusioninspire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/panoramic-film-direction-in-progress.html

Please come and take a look at my blog to follow the journey of my most recent film shoot for my new production 'The Dragon Tree' funded by an Individual Mainline Grant from the Arts Council of Wales.

12 dancers from Arts Care Gofal Celf new contemporary dance troop LegaC with Zosia Jo and Laura Jenkins, 2 actors, 6…

Sold out for rest of run at Chapter so get on the train and get yourself to The Arcola in London 4 & 5 Nov

"This show is captivating, moving and hilarious...if you delighted in reading Caitlin Moran's 'How To Be A Woman' this show will undoubtedly tick all your boxes...an amalgamation of theatre production and stand-up, it explores the plights and delights of being a woman..Director Yvonne Murphy and Writer Emily Steel possess the bravery to deal with sensitive and taboo topics in…

      Waiting to go in and see the Beautiful Burnout; I quickly read the narrative and general backgroud behind the production to find out more about what I was about to see.

    Firstly It follows five young fighters as they aim for the bright lights, the play focuses on a guy called Cameron Burns who's fighting for his club and mother.

   My interpretation before going in was the above pretty much. I knew it was a play about a boxer trying to fight his way to the top and it…

Hi, I’m running Improv as a part of NTW TEAM from Nov 6^th, and have been attending a different Improvisation course in Bristol run by the lovely Tristan Hancock in order to get a bit of a refresh. 

Week 4, Thursday 25^th October

This week seems to be a lot quicker sum up, and I think it’s good that as the session go on we are able to spend more time on fewer exercises. We began by doing a scene from Chekhov’s The Bear, which threw us all a…