TEAM Social Night

The TEAM Social Night is a unique, warm and inviting night that celebrates National Theatre Wales TEAM across the country with performances, music,…

A huge congratulations to our Audience Winner Bethan Grant and the NTW TEAM winner Omar Fadhil. 

To give you a taste of Omar's talent below is one of his poems. A condensed version will be included in the NTW newspaper which will be in circulation for the next few months. Make sure you get your copy. 

Rant #2

I wanna prove that I can be insightful, but I don't know where to…

Hello community!

I just wanted to introduce myself as the new TEAM Assistant at National Theatre Wales. I will be assisting the TEAM coordinator, Devinda De Silva over the next two years by supporting and being part of TEAM happenings across Wales. I will also be on the hunt for more TEAM members!

The first few hours of NTW employment started off with the In Water I’m Weightless meet and greet instantly making me feel welcome and part of the team - also…

So tonight is the opening night and we have been in Tech and prop madness for the past few days.

Pornography is a piece of theatre you will never see done the same way twice. Simon Stephens bravely writes...

'This play can be performed by any number of actors. It can be performed in any order'.

A challenge that Waking…

For the last three weeks I have been lucky enough to shadow Mathilde Lopez, director of Waking Exploits whilst she dissects and re-constructs the controversial play Pornography by Simon Stevens.

Here is a few sneaky shots I took early in the process...…

Today we opened our TEAM pop-up shop in the food quarter of St. Davids 2 to promote A Provincial Life which kicks off on Thursday at 7.30pm in the Sherman Theatre.

Come along to see interviews with the ensemble of A…

National Theatre Wales are launching an exciting competition to win a pair of tickets to the social night of A Provincial Life on March 2^nd.

The night includes:

•  Spoken word, poetry readings and performance in response to underlying themes

• Music from guest DJ’s

• Meet up and chat with fellow members of the NTW community

• Meet key members of the NTW staff and creative…

From NTW TEAM member to The Promoter of A Provincial Life, over the next 8 weeks follow my exciting journey and keep up to date with all things Provincial...

Yesterday was my first day in my new role as The Promoter for National Theatre Wales’ 17^th production: A Provincial Life. What a way to start a new job. A 5am rise, gallons of coffee and a trip to London to see the dynamic set design lay out and meet the wonderful cast for their first read through…

Thursday 15^th of September saw the second Word4Word event and the first to be held by NTWteam. A night devoted to celebrating the importance of words and the variety of forms in which they are delivered. Originally to be held at CAI a whirlwind of panic set in when their refurbishment was put forward and we only had two days to find a new venue. Thankfully Milgi’s stepped in and the yurt was ours for the night.

After comically carrying heavy benches in…

Over the last month the words from A Sunday Roast have slowly lifted from the paper and come to life. Along the way I have of course come to face many problems, and with just over two weeks left to go I am sure to face many more. It is from these difficulties that I have come to see the most interesting of sequences.The original script for A Sunday Roast wouldn't even recognize what it has become. With more added movement than I had originally planned the creation of A Sunday Roast…

Who are we?

We are Empty Pocket Theatre, a group of aspiring writers, actors, theatre-makers, founded by Anna Poole and Natalie Stone.

It all began a year ago when two young writer/directors were united through the Sherman writers group and involved in a forming a script for the Springboard 2011. Soon after graduating in ‘10 they were thrown out into the big bad scary world to find a job. Unfortunately this was easier said than done and after a sea of…