National Theatre Wales's Blog – March 2011 Archive (2)

Kaite O'Reilly wins the The Ted Hughes Prize for The Persians

Kaite O'Reilly has won the Ted Hughes Prize for Poetry for her extraordinary new version of Aeschylus's The Persians.  The sixth show in NTW's much lauded launch year has already won huge plaudits, including TMA best design award for Mike Brookes and Simon Banham, and enormous praise for Mike Pearson; but what a truly wonderful achievement for Kaite, to take on this difficult and complex text, often argued and worried over, and to create such a vibrantly living version that Britain's best poets… Continue

Added by National Theatre Wales on March 24, 2011 at 12:30 — 9 Comments

12 Shows in 12 Months!

It's Saturday afternoon and I'm sitting in the foyer of The Torch theatre between the matinee and the evening show on the last magical day of Mundo Paralelo.  A year ago, we started off on our journey - 12 shows in 12 months in 12 different locations across Wales - and we've actually pulled it off.  Just our extraordinary finale in Port Talbot to go now!

 

On May 26 at midnight we will announce our next year of work.  I'm very excited by the new shows and ideas - and by the…

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Added by National Theatre Wales on March 19, 2011 at 7:34 — 1 Comment

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