For All I Care, a one-woman show by Alan Harris

Directed by Jac Ifan Moore

Clara and Nyri. Two very different women. Two complicated lives. Both having a very bad day. 

Mental health nurse Nyri’s woken up hungover with a younger man. Meanwhile, Clara has developed a compulsive wink and can’t remember if she’s taken her meds.

Nyri needs to get to Ebbw Vale Hospital via Greggs, and Clara is dodging signs telling her - rather rudely - to kill…

ON BEAR RIDGE

A National Theatre Wales and Royal Court Theatre co-production

Written by Ed Thomas

Co-directed by Vicky Featherstone & Ed Thomas

“One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one.”

In a lost village, blurred…

Hi everyone, 

Here’s a list of the 70 conversations that were called on Sunday. Several merged, lots evolved into something different and some never happened because people were pulled in other directions. 

If you’ve got notes in your bag, on your phone or in your head, you can still email them to us, until the end of the week,…

And we’re off!

We’ve gathered in Portland House with colleagues and friends, and we’re asking WHAT IS OUR DREAM FOR THEATRE IN WALES OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS?

Everyone here will have a hand in setting the agenda for the day.

We’ll timetable what each person wants to talk about, between now and 5pm, so the big hall here will be abuzz with many conversations at once, for the rest of the afternoon.

People will make notes to capture those…

COTTON FINGERS, a one-woman show by Rachel Trezise

Directed by Julia Thomas

Written by award-winning writer Rachel Trezise at the time of the historic referendum of the 8th amendment in Ireland, Cotton Fingers takes us on journey from Belfast to Wales.

This bold, coming-of-age story was originally commissioned as part of National Theatre Wales’ NHS70…

Production

STORM 3

National Theatre Wales’ Storm Cycle is a series of multimedia works, performed at different locations across Wales, exploring two key themes; truth and testimony.

Following STORM 1: Nothing Remains the Same and…

Casting / Castio: TIDE WHISPERER

PRODUCTION:

A large scale site-specific production in Tenby town and harbour, West Wales.

Written by Louise Wallwein / Directed by Kully Thiarai / Designed by Camilla Clark

An immersive…

PRODUCTION: ECZEMA!

Created by Maria Fusco

Skin is an event. Skin is a factory. Skin is a map. Skin is a leaking border. Skin is memory. Skin is time. Skin is global.

Art writer Maria Fusco’s ECZEMA! explores the life of eczema; a skin disease affecting an estimated 15 million people in the UK, including the writer herself. Exploring what it is like to live in…

CASTING BREAKDOWN

NHS70: As Long as the Heart Beats 

PRODUCTION:



As Long as the Heart Beats will be a site-located, theatrical journey inspired…

National Theatre Wales and Migrations are casting for Touch.

National Theatre Wales will team up with arts organisation Migrations, French choreographer and dancer Julie Nioche and choreographers Filiz Sizanli and Mustafa Kaplan from Turkey, to create Touch, a site-specific, interactive and tactile dance piece about the therapeutic aspects of dance…

Casting Breakdown: ENGLISH

National Theatre Wales and Quarantine

Who we are looking for

We’re looking for someone with direct personal experience of teaching English as a second or other

language (ESOL), to be the sole performer in an upcoming production. This person should appear to be 30 -

55 and could be of any gender.

This person could be a professional performer who has taught ESOL or an ESOL teacher who has…

National Theatre Wales & Oily Cart are casting for SPLISH SPLASH, a complex needs show.

Oily Cart has an international reputation for its work with young people with complex learning disabilities. We are looking for wonderful performers for a new hydro-pool production. The show will be created in collaboration with National Theatre of Wales as part of NHS70, a month-long festival, inspired by some of the founders, staff and patients of this extraordinary…

Hi everyone.

We're really excited to have announced our 2018 yesterday! It's Artistic Director Kully Thiarai's first full season and the focus is People and Places. You can read all about it here

We are of course looking forward to collaborating with some amazing performers throughout the year. Remember that our casting breakdowns are always shared here first and do get in touch if…

Casting Breakdown: A new performance piece from National Theatre Wales and Quarantine

National Theatre Wales (NTW) is collaborating with leading UK contemporary theatre company, Quarantine, to create a new piece of performance for the NTW’s  next season.

The production will look at ideas related to language and migration - with a focus on the relationship between ‘voice’ and identity and the…

WE’RE STILL HERE

Casting Breakdown

 WE’RE STILL HERE by Rachel Tresize is a play about 5 steelworkers at the time of the…

LIFTED BY BEAUTY: ADVENTURES IN DREAMING

We are now casting the following professional roles on Roald Dahl’s City of the Unexpected:

Giraffe Unicyclist – we’re looking for talented individuals with giraffe unicycle skills to be part of exciting outdoor scenes for large crowds. For more information on the production and how to get in touch, please read on.

Mr. Mole. – Male actor. Champion and partner in crime to Mr Fox, Mr Mole keeps a cool head throughout his friend’s…

ABOUT FRANK

The next professional roles in our City of the Unexpected cast to be filled are 1 parkour artist and two unicyclists. If you've got these skills please read on and get in touch (with your CV and showreel if possible) asap.

We'd like to meet people during the week commencing 18th July. 

Thank you!

Other roles still being cast include…

CITY OF THE UNEXPECTED

Wales Millennium Centre & National Theatre Wales

Directed by Nigel Jamieson

17-18 September 2016, Cardiff city centre

National Theatre Wales is casting for various roles in City of the…