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Dirty Protest - May 6th - Do you want to pop your cherry in front of a lot of people?

Hello all,

Dirty Protest will be holding an election night of plays on May 6th in a venue TBC in Cardiff. We have plays by:

Jack Thorne

Atiha Sen Gupta

James Graham

Ed Hime

And we're looking for a Cherry popper! In Dirty Protest speak, we're looking for someone who wants to get into playwrighting but has never had the opportunity, someone who has never had anything performed ever before in their lives. We're looking for someone genuinely new to theatre,… Continue

Added by Tim Price on April 16, 2010 at 6:05 — No Comments

Training and development opportunities at ITs Festival, Amsterdam, June 2010!

The ITs Festival Amsterdam (international theatre school festival) is a brilliant week of diverse performance, debate and celebration. The next festival is coming up soon 22nd-30th June 2010, and there are various training opportunities for 3rd/4th year students, recent graduates and young emerging artists!

Please see attached info…

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Added by Andrew Loretto on April 16, 2010 at 4:55 — No Comments

'Pygmalion Redux' with Teflonstage this summer

Teflonstage will be touring a school's version of 'Pygmalion Redux' by Oscar Fovarge this summer. We are looking for actors-animateurs-workshop leaders for the schools (salary, full board on uni campuses, performance fees). See my previous blog. In particular we seek an actor for the role of Leo Pygman (the 'g' is silent), troubled, dissolute but brilliant promoter of aspiring female rock stars. Contact office@teflonstage.org for further info.

Added by Anthony Childs-Cutler on April 16, 2010 at 0:50 — No Comments

Day 48 - On the Road - Aber to Cardiff

The monitoring document is complete. I am really glad that I wrote it. It helps to have sat down and written about what I have been doing and what I intend to do. Back in control of the project. My house mate gave me a lift down to Cardiff in the afternoon. I am going to spend the weekend with family and then hopefully on Monday I will be able to visit and interview some people at the National Theatre.

It occurred to me that a trip to London to visit the National…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on April 15, 2010 at 22:30 — No Comments

Day 47 - Monitoring 2nd Draft - The National Library

I returned to the document that I had set up the day before. And stared blankly into the sections. Hmmmm... what do you say you are doing when you are not yet sure what you are doing. I suppose the expectations can't be that high of this as I am only 6 weeks into the project. Only enough time to have started thinking really.

There are four sections to the document

A cover page

An explanation of where I am at…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on April 15, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments

Director of "The Devil Inside Him" Trailer.

I’m Ryan Andrews director of The Devil Inside Him trailer, I work mainly in genre film and have a distinct style. I am currently in pre production for my fist feature film to be shot in 3D “Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons” to be distributed by Sony and vertigo film. This May I will also be shooting “Jerusalem” starring Ray Winstone as William Blake. My previous works include, Family picnic for which I won the IMS award for best director and soon to be… Continue

Added by Ryan Andrews on April 15, 2010 at 3:30 — 4 Comments

Greg, National Theatre Wales' hero.

This is our saviour Greg who in less than 10 minutes fixed our boiler and ended two long weeks of freezing office torture. Greg, merci.

Added by Mathilde Lopez on April 15, 2010 at 3:27 — 2 Comments

Teflonstage new theatre in education project

South Wales-based Teflonstage has been asked to run a theatre in education project at international junior centres in England and Scotland in July/August this year. This forms part of a fresh approach to language learning. There are further plans to take workshops and performances to conferences in Europe from early 2011. Teflonstage is looking for actors-workshop leaders-animateurs. Contact me for more information.

Added by Anthony Childs-Cutler on April 14, 2010 at 22:42 — No Comments

Day 46 - Monitoring 1st draft - Online Aberystwyth

I set my 1st draft up on Google Docs. There are three sections. The first is an outline of the project to date, the second contains a draft structure and the third part is a rough timetable for the completion of the project. I was also able to construct a number of different research questions. I need to hand it in on Friday if I am to head off to cardiff in the evening. That means completing the work tomorrow and then tweaking on Friday.

Added by Dr Tom Payne on April 14, 2010 at 10:15 — No Comments

Puns to be left on the shelf.

That good old fellow Oscar Wilde once said that the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

With this philosophy in mind, I want to go wild with a puntastic celebration of Shelf Life before go and see it on Friday. I'm hoping as many people as possible can join in the fun times. What, with this being a fully booked show in an empty library (get it, yeah?) the cheesier the comments the better.

Dominic Cavendish from The Telegraph has already unwittingly joined in the game… Continue

Added by Amelia Forsbrook on April 14, 2010 at 5:45 — No Comments

Over The Rainbow Live Event, St. David's Hall, Cardiff

Date: 9 May 2010

Address: St. David's Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 1SH

Morning event: 11am-1pm

Afternoon event: 3pm-5pm

This May, fans of BBC One’s Over the Rainbow are invited to have a go at singing at a series of free events around the country, including two sessions at St David’s Hall, Cardiff.

The Over the Rainbow Live Events will give thousands of participants the chance to take part in their own musical theatre masterclass, with help from the…

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Added by Sing on April 14, 2010 at 5:00 — No Comments

REMIX @ The BAC on the 8th of May 2010

An innovative multi-disciplinary experience combining theatre, visual art, virtual media, fashion, music and poetry.

REMIX brings together a creative team of exciting emerging practitioners who have never created a piece of theatre before: photographer Mike Chalmers, filmmaker Harriet Fleuriot, jazz musician Dom James, performance poet Sabrina Mahfouz, stylist Lewis Smith, theatre director Natalie Ibu and some of London's hottest acting talent.

Taking a poem as a starting… Continue

Added by Matthew Raymond on April 14, 2010 at 2:22 — 1 Comment

Devil Inside Him week 3!...

So it’s the beginning of week 3 and I thought it was about time I introduced myself and let you know a bit about what we are up too.I’m Sita Calvert – Ennals the grateful recipient of one of N. T. W’s emergent director bursaries. I‘m very happy to be assisting Elen Bowman and a fantastic cast on The Devil Inside him.

The play is set in 1950 in a small village about half an hour away from Swansea. So the first week was about getting into the world. Myself and Sarah…

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Added by Sita Calvert - Ennals on April 13, 2010 at 11:45 — 1 Comment

Day 45 - Spinning - Aberystwyth

Spinning. Walking. Lots of sunshine. More Running. Spinning. No labels on the wine in co-op. Forgot my wallet. Spinning. More spinning. New plan of action tomorrow. And first draft of monitoring document.

Added by Dr Tom Payne on April 13, 2010 at 10:00 — No Comments

Procrastination

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Added by Robert Harper on April 13, 2010 at 2:05 — No Comments

Day 44 - All around and up and down - Aberystwyth

I went running three times today. Progressively shorter distances each time. I also did more thinking. I decided to return to John's article, Rapid Response to find some answers to yesterdays questions. The last time I read it the first show hadn't happened. Neither had the assembly project. It was interesting to reflect upon the aims with reference to the work so far.

I have pulled out a number of quotes that seemed relevant. In what way I'm not yet sure. But…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on April 12, 2010 at 10:22 — No Comments

Shakespeare has logged on to Twitter!

www.suchsweetsorrow.com

In this ground-breaking experiment, Romeo and Juliet is coming to life across and through a social network, Twitter.

Throughout the five weeks of this performance, you will see and read the “tweets” - Twitter updates which may be thoughts, messages, links or confessions - of Romeo, Juliet and four other characters .

They are being brought to your Twitter-stream by six actors from the Royal… Continue

Added by Bethan Marlow on April 12, 2010 at 7:30 — 3 Comments

The Devil Inside Him campaign has hit the street

Added by Matt the Hat on April 12, 2010 at 3:49 — 2 Comments

Hot Tears The Grand Theatre, Arts Wing , Swansea 24th April 12.30 p.m.

Hi everyone just wanted to let you of a performance I am doing on the 24th April at The Grand Theatre, Arts Wing in Swansea. It's a new play called 'Hot Tears' by Caerphilly writer Alun Howells. Based on Squaddies on their tour of Iraq before their withdrawl, it tells their stories, one of many but a universal story of how serving, living & death affects us all. It's only about 30 - 40 mins but should be thought provoking & give an insight into the thoughts & lives of those who… Continue

Added by Edward Llewelyn on April 12, 2010 at 3:16 — No Comments

Hay on Wye Festival

Anyone needing easy transport to the Hay on Wye festival this year, we are running a trip on Saturday 29th May. Please check out the website for more details:

http://www.classicaleducationforum.co.uk

or join us on facebook to keep updated:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Classical-Education-Forum/207781558455

Added by Classical Education Forum on April 12, 2010 at 0:36 — No Comments