How fantastic! It's just been announced that Marc Rees is the winner of the Cultural Olympiad project Artists Taking the Lead for Wales - congratulations to Marc and to his producer Sian Thomas and everyone behind the bid.

Here's the scoop

We are all v proud and v excited at National Theatre Wales. Well done xxxxx

If you're passing Castle Arcade between 5pm and 6pm tonight do pop into our shop. We will be joyfully launching a collaboration with the Cardiff art gallery and collective G39. The three artists involved are Paul Rees, Richard Higlett and Sam Aldridge.

Curated by g39 for National Theatre Wales, the exhibition shows the work of three artists that deal with artifice and fabrication, blurring the line between fiction and… Continue

As if we didn't have enough fantastic opportunities to offer, we are thrilled to be one of the PEACH placements in this year's Cultural Leadership Programme. We are offering a year with us as Associate Producer, to work alongside me and the team in delivering our launch year programme. Info attached here.
Placement Associate Producer NTW.pdf

We're advertising this week for a Technical Director to join the NTW team. Somebody to lead us on the technical and production journey through 12 extraordinary shows in 12 places and spaces across Wales.Deadline is July 31st. All details on the ad.Tech Director ad.pdf

Here's John, Lesa and I eating award-winning ice-cream in Milford Haven, after visiting the Torch yesterday. Tough work.

We're advertising this week for a Communications Director to join the NTW team. If you're a visionary marketing strategist and want to communicate our message and our work within Wales and beyond then do apply. Advert hereby. For more info email work@nationaltheatrewales.org - deadline is July 3rd.

For those of you (Nathan, Catherine) who have been trying to add events, we are reserving the 'EVENTS' section of the site for our own National Theatre Wales activities. So do as you are all joyfully doing and use the blogs and forums to talk about what you're all up to. Lucy D

I went to the theatre twice last week, and both times to shows for tiny kids. The first one was FINDING LEAVES FOR SOUP, Theatr Iolo's gorgeous show for nursery kids, and the other was Fevered Sleep's brilliant BRILLIANT at Sadlers Wells in London. If only more grown-up theatre had the same vision, surreality, enchantment, magic, delicacy and freedom. I took my 3 year old son with me both times, and we were equally rapt, LOVED them both - the gentle, mud-slinging, boat-floating, leaf-crunching… Continue