National Theatre Wales Community

All Blog Posts (7,657)

Caravans and Welsh Holidays

I came upon this holiday snap in my uncle's facebook account. Since moving back to Wales, the Paskells have all befriended me on Facebook and welcomed me back to the bosom of my hometown... well, they live in Penarth, but I guess that's close enough to Cardiff...

It made me think of Marc Rees' recent road trip around the Welsh coast and his blog on here. How tied we all are as Welsh families to the sea and to the caravan spots that… Continue

Added by Catherine Paskell on June 22, 2009 at 5:30 — 5 Comments

Please vote for Odyssey Theatre

Hullo everyone

We have fantastic news at Hijinx Theatre - our Odyssey Theatre project is one of the 10 finalists for the National Lottery Best Arts Project award which now goes to public vote as of today. This means we need as many votes as possible to be one of the 3 finalists!

Voting is from 22nd June - 10th July so please, please vote for us via the link below or telephone your vote in. Please also tell all your friends to vote for us too - they can check us out on our… Continue

Added by gaynor lougher on June 21, 2009 at 23:32 — No Comments

Landscapes and Roadtrips

Just back from a couple of days that the Living Landscapes conference organised by Mike Pearson and Heike Roms at Aberystwyth University - theatre artists, professors of performance, geographers and choreographers. Hundreds of them. Landscape is HOT! I went to panels about Walking, Building Sites and Art in Forests! It was challenging and inspiring to hear such a range of thinking and discussion as we develop our 'Theatre Map of Wales'. Some of the students at Aberystwyth were doing… Continue

Added by National Theatre Wales on June 21, 2009 at 9:00 — 2 Comments

Get Your Work Shown At The Almeida

The Almeida are putting out a call for people to help collaborate with this installation. Thought I'd post it in case anyone is interested.

And, oh yeah, we have a show on called Last Seen running at the same time:

Cheers,

Scotty.

Lost Property is a public project. We invite you to create a poster for something that you have lost during your… Continue

Added by Matthew David Scott on June 21, 2009 at 0:44 — No Comments

Nederlands Dans Theater 2

Just saw - no, make that experienced - NDT2 at Wales Millennium Centre last night and WOW! just how many emotions can one be encouraged to experience in one performance - what a thrill!

Gods & Dogs is just pure beauty personified.

Offspring subtly echoes the duality of creation, whereas Minus 16 shows none of us can deny The Beat! We all left the theatre with a smile imprinted on our hearts last night ...

For those that don't know, NDT2 are sixteen… Continue

Added by Deborah Powell on June 20, 2009 at 3:30 — 8 Comments

Day 5 road trip

After a night shaken about by the wind and a dawn chorus of evil seagulls on the roof, we beat an early retreat from the caravan park in search of a hot breakfast and a wireless connection.

After the disappointment of the Victoria Pier we didn't want to leave north Wales without a visit to Llandudno and the promise of a fully working pier. We were not disappointed. It's in immaculate condition and the glistening silvery towers inspired us to dream up a performative intervention… Continue

Added by Marc Rees on June 20, 2009 at 1:31 — 4 Comments

Day 4 pics

Continue

Added by Marc Rees on June 19, 2009 at 7:41 — No Comments

Seven People - The Video Diaries (Part Two)

Need to get something off your chest? Go ahead. Nobody's listening...

(contains strong language)

Nathan video diary.mov

featuring Nathan Sussex.

Added by Neil Bebber on June 19, 2009 at 4:48 — 1 Comment

Michael Groves - a new play by Neil Bebber (a gentle reminder).

Hi.

Please see below details for my new show. I hope some (ideally all) of you can make it!

Michael Groves by Neil Bebber

Fri 26 + Sat 27 June

8pm + 9.15pm

"A person we don’t know. A concept we don’t believe is possible. A tragedy that might not have happened. In half an hour, all will become clear... Maybe."

From the team that brought the Valentine special Magnets earlier this year, comes a new short play for one… Continue

Added by Neil Bebber on June 19, 2009 at 4:47 — No Comments

Seven People - The Video Diaries (Part Four)

Need to get something off your chest? Go ahead. Nobody's listening...

Hannah video diary.mov

featuring Hannah McPake.

Added by Neil Bebber on June 19, 2009 at 4:35 — No Comments

invisible theatre

As part of the IKEA Cardiff collaboration with the charity AMuse myself and Jennifer Hartley put together a group of people who didn't know each other but had met during various workshops organised by Theatre Versus Oppression in Cardiff. We were going to do a radical reworkling of the morning of the wedding from Blood Wedding. Only it didn't work out like that....

for details of the how the invisible drama really became invisible see Jennifer's very entertaining blog of the event… Continue

Added by Suzanne Phillips on June 19, 2009 at 0:47 — No Comments

Day 4 - Road Trip

After a full hearty Welsh breakfast we rolled down the hill to explore the wonders of Barmouth. It’s a captivating blend of faded Victorian grandeur; amusement arcade awfulness; bric-a-brac shops galore and numerous chapels of all denominations now crudely and unsympathetically converted into Bargain Bin stores one, horrifyingly, placing the till in the pulpit. I could almost hear the generations of Calvanistic Methodist ghosts who’d worshipped in these chapels for a century or more, groaning… Continue

Added by Marc Rees on June 18, 2009 at 22:31 — No Comments

Launching... Groups!

We're launching a new feature called groups on the National Theatre Wales site today. Here's some of our thinking behind it.

This community now has nearly 500 members from all over Wales and the world. We're a diverse bunch in the theatre scene - we have writers, actors, directors, enthusiasts, musicians, other companies, people "formerly known as the audience" and more.

Our aim with this site… Continue

Added by Tom Beardshaw on June 18, 2009 at 11:51 — No Comments

Group Wisdom

The eagle eyed among you have already spotted a new development on the site. GROUPS (yeah kinda like the thing on the facewhatsit site) is a way for folk with a common interest to share info, ideas, advice. GROUPS will be coming online properly in the next few days, but basically you can join ours, or you can start your own. The official National Theatre Wales groups so far are for ACTORS, WRITERS, CREATIVE PEOPLE and TEAM MEMBERS. And no, you don't have to choose between them, you can have as… Continue

Added by National Theatre Wales on June 18, 2009 at 11:44 — 1 Comment

Day 3 pics

Continue

Added by Marc Rees on June 17, 2009 at 22:17 — No Comments

Day 3 - Road Trip

Sian’s chanting worked, the heavens opened and the boat trip was cancelled.

The visit to the island will have to wait but in the meantime here are a few images of the interior we found on the web.

So onwards to Barmouth via Fishguard through horizontal sheets of rain. We stopped for lunch at Melin Tregwynt and met with Mill owners Eifion and Amanda - the Welsh woolen wunder duo who have reinvented the traditional Welsh blanket, making their beautiful new designs (blankets,… Continue

Added by Marc Rees on June 17, 2009 at 22:05 — 2 Comments

Day 1 pics (properly uploaded this time!)

Just realised that they hadn't uploaded properly so here's the images from Day 1 of our road trip once again ( I am finally getting to grips with the technology...yay!)…