Thought some of you might be interested in this...

It's an hour long... so grab a cuppa.

Mike Wesch, an anthropologist from Kansas on the culture of YouTube.

I noticed a lot of the language we use to talk about it is theatrical... hope it inspires some people...





Here's "The Machine is Us/ing Us" that he was talking… Continue

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We'd love to hear your reactions to the first year's programme - so please get a-blogging! Just one small request - please include the official tag in the "Tags" field of the blog form (just under the content area) - this will help us keep all the conversations together.



If you're involved in a production, a local, or just really interested, please join the groups - where you'll find a discussion board dedicated to that show, and we will make sure that all new related blog posts and… Continue

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Hi everyone. Just a quick note to say we're tinkering under the hood here at nationaltheatrewales.org - and you may find the site goes offline now and again - please bear with us!

Are you on Twitter?



Tonight National Theatre Wales is testing the Respond programme. Over the past 5 days, a performance in response to the Twitter discussion topic #WeLoveTheNHS has been created by 5 artists.



If you aren't coming to the Respond Try Out tonight, you can take part through Twitter! You can be a central part of… Continue

Native (that's Carl and me) are organising a meeting on SATURDAY 10th October at NTW's offices in Castle Arcade to explore how the community will develop in the future, and we'd like to invite you to join us.



We'd like you to come along between 10 and 3pm to explore how NTW can help the community grow. We'll be looking at how people feel about the community site's early development - what's cool, what's… Continue

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.



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Hi everyone. I've written some ideas on how to get started on this site - please take a look. A couple of requests - please can you make sure you've uploaded a photo to your profile and entered some basic info about yourself under "A little about me"? - edit your profile to do this. Many thanks!

What's exciting about the National Theatre's approach is their openness to the community around them. This morning we're learning about blogging - getting thoughts up onto the web, responding and debating each other's ideas.



It's great to be present at the birth of something new, and it'll fascinating to see how the conversation evolves over time here. With so many passionate and creative people involved in the Theatre scene in Wales and beyond, I'm sure there will be some awesome… Continue