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How should I function as a Producer?

Hi Lovely NTW Community,

I am currently going through a a bit of development as a Producer and am very interested in how all you lovely creatives think a Producer should operate and who of you out there are interested in working with a Producer?

If you'd like to leave me with any thoughts, I'd love to read them so please do . . . 

Sarah x

Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on August 28, 2014 at 1:46 — 2 Comments

Urgent - Production Manager Needed - August 012 Theatre Development (Paid)

August 012 are looking for a Production Manager for their up and coming research and development of Cyrano. We would like to develop this classic text revisited by Matt Hartley and Mathilde Lopez with and within the rugby world and would like to try out a few ideas that include rugby line up, movements, training and approaches to space.

Must be available exclusively from the 15th to the 25th of September 2014 and be available from now…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on August 12, 2014 at 0:30 — No Comments

Hiraeth - NTW TEAM - Ed Fringe 2014

I'm sat in a cafe eating the healthiest breakfast I could find (a fry up) and I'm taking time to reflect before the madness of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.



I heard about Buddug James Jones before I met her. She was a theatre designer, had finished University, done some successful fringe productions and had ended up back in Wales working for the government. From hearing this, I knew we were going to get on. My life was pretty similar only I was trying to form a career as a producer… Continue

Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on August 1, 2014 at 0:10 — 1 Comment

Only 2 more days left to see ROBERTO ZUCCO

Chapter Arts Centre, 7.30pm, Book your tickets HERE !

Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on July 18, 2014 at 2:25 — No Comments

Roberto Zucco Review Round Up So Far . . . .

The reviews are in for Roberto Zucco . . .

 

 

“Mathilde Lopez’s direction is typically kinetic and immersive . . . grimly humorous, and slyly sexy . . . This is theatre at its most involving and provocative.”

 

Othniel Smith - British Theatre Guide -…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on July 14, 2014 at 23:45 — No Comments

AUGUST 012 - Roberto Zucco - Design Assistants Needed

August 012 are looking for two design assistants to help our designer Buddug James Jones for the week (Monday - Saturday) of the 23rd of June 2014.

We will be working in Cardiff and can cover expenses of up to £50 per assistant, and you will get a free ticket to see the show. There is no fee.

If you are interested please email…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on June 16, 2014 at 5:49 — No Comments

August012-Roberto Zucco-recruiting assistant director

August 012 Theatre is now recruiting an Assistant Director for ROBERTO ZUCCO

We are looking for an Assistant Director for our next production Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès, translated by Martin Crimp and directed by Mathilde Lopez, opening on 9th-19th July 2014 at Chapter Arts Centre.

Sitting somewhere between detective thriller, philosophical tale, poetry anthology and American gangster movie, Koltès’ scandalous play investigates the life of Roberto…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on May 24, 2014 at 4:00 — No Comments

Mametz Ensemble Call Out - Take Part in an NTW Show

Mametz Call Out

 

Hello,

 

NTW are looking for a non-professional, ensemble cast for our next production Mametz by Owen Sheers, writer of The Passion.

 

We are looking for 10 male performers (8 who look late teens/early twenties and 2 who are older) and 10 female performers (all ages). Who are able to sing and move and appear in key crowd scenes as part of this unique, outdoors, site-specific production.

 

Here is some…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on May 7, 2014 at 20:33 — 3 Comments

Lleisiau - 2 weeks to go - Look who we've got performing! Mike Pearson!

Over the next two weeks we will be introducing to you a number of the amazing performers we have taking part in Lleisiau and here's our first, the legend who is Mike Pearson . . . 

"I'm a professor at Aberystwyth University but until 1997 I worked as professional theatre maker in Wales – with Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973-81) and Brith Gof…
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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on April 23, 2014 at 23:01 — No Comments

Casting Call - August 012 - Zucco

This is a casting call for August 012’s next production: Roberto Zucco by Bernard Marie Koltes.

 

The piece will be directed by Mathilde Lopez.

The rehearsals will take place in Cardiff 9th June - 8th July 2014.

The play will open on 9th July and run until 19th July at Chapter Arts Centre.

 

We are looking for:

-1 male actor, 40-45 years old, to play Zucco’s mother, the Brother, the Detective, the…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on April 18, 2014 at 8:00 — 9 Comments

#NTWAssembly Cardigan - Who Controls the Drones in my Sky?

Since Monday Gavin and the Cardigan Assembly team have been questioning, collaborating and creating around the provocation: Who Controls the Drones in My Sky?

The team is made up of a mixture of artists and crew from National Theatre Wales and the Small World Theatre (Click here to find out more about them) . We have Buddug, Delyth, Hassan, Toby, Jake, Sean, Steve, Bill, Matt, Sam, Tom, Louis, Alex and, of…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on March 28, 2014 at 7:13 — No Comments

Table#21 Productions has launched!

I just wanted write a blog about some very exciting news! 

Table#21 Productions has launched! We are a new and exciting, multi-media production company, looking to tell stories in new and imaginative ways by tackling difficult, tricky and unexplored subjects that test human behaviour and response.  We are drawn towards real stories – sometimes biographical, always honest and truthful.

The company is the brainchild of Welsh actor …

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on February 19, 2014 at 6:46 — 1 Comment

Lleisiau - Open Call - Got an unusual vocal talent or know someone who has? We need you to be part of the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival!!!

Do you have an unusual vocal talent? Is your voice essential to the work you do? Then I want to talk with you . . . 

Basically, I am currently working on a project called Lleisiau which is part of the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival which over this year is celebrating the birth of the great Welsh poet!

As part of Lleisiau we are looking…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on January 20, 2014 at 4:27 — 3 Comments

Parallel Lines: Rapid Response - Paul Jenkins . . .

Paul Jenkins is another of our five writers for Friday’s fundraiser: Parallel Lines: Rapid Response. Paul is a bit of a cheeky chappy, this is what he sent us for his bio:

 

“I was one of the runners-up in the Wales Drama Award so I was very keen to see if I was able to write something better than Kath this time ;)”

 

Paul on his…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on November 28, 2013 at 2:53 — No Comments

Parallel Lines: Rapid Response - Tracy Harris

After the Parallel Lines performance this Friday, Dirty Protest are holding a fundraiser: Parallel Lines: Rapid Response.

 

Dirty Protest like to cram new writing into all the time and space they can get their Dirty paws on. They have sent five writers to see Katherine Chandler's award winning play, Parallel Lines, and gave them less than a week to pen their responses. Tracy Harris is one of the five . . .

 

Tracy is a writer, performance artist and filmmaker. Her…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on November 27, 2013 at 5:00 — No Comments

Parallel Lines Responses so far . . .

 

Wow! So, it has been a crazy week for Dirty Protest and all the cast and crew of Parallel Lines.

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on November 25, 2013 at 4:30 — No Comments

Livestreaming from the Rehearsal Room - Thursday (14th November) - Parallel Lines

So last week, I was lucky enough to be one of the Producers selected to be part of the Digital Producers Lab. Not only has it given me a burst of energy and left me feeling like I'm not alone (a real gift to a lonely freelancer) but it's inspired me to come up with a lot of new ideas . . . 

I'm currently working as Producer on Dirty Protest's up and coming production of Parallel Lines by Katherine Chandler.…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on November 12, 2013 at 4:59 — No Comments

How the Parallel Lines Print was Designed (Video) . . .

It's not often you get such great designers who not only make beautiful artwork for print but show you how they create the beautiful work too . . .

Pen to Print from Burning Red on Vimeo.

Parallel Lines is on in the Chapter Theatre from the 20th - 30th…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on November 8, 2013 at 7:30 — No Comments

English Touring Theatre want to know what's your favourite English language play?

Hi NTW Community,

As part of their 21st Birthday celebrations English Touring Theatre Company are asking what is your favourite (English language) play? 

I cast my vote on Friday and it took me about half an hour of deliberating to finally decide . . . My favourite play isn't written originally in English and so I knew couldn't vote for it. So I started to consider all of the British playwrights who I admired Mark Ravenhill, Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Tom…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on October 29, 2013 at 6:01 — No Comments

Writers! Get down to surgery this weekend at Dirty, Gifted and Welsh!

Join us in Treorchy this Saturday for personal surgeries for writers, with National Theatre Wales staff, the Dirty Protest team and The Writer’s Guild for Great Britain. Bring your questions, your woes and your enthusiasm to pick our brains and get all the info you need to step it up, wherever you’re up to in your writing career.

 

Sign up on the day for a 10-minute slot between 10am – 11am or 1pm – 2pm.

 

10am – 11am

‘What joining the Writers' Guild…

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Added by Sarah Jane Leigh on October 17, 2013 at 4:33 — 4 Comments

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