Wales Millennium Centre and National Theatre Wales are looking to recruit an Associate Director to work as part of the creative team, led by Nigel Jamieson, for City of the Unexpected, to be staged in Cardiff City Centre, 17^th & 18^th September 2016.

This September, Cardiff will celebrate the centenary of one of its most well-known sons, Roald Dahl, with an extraordinary weekend-long event, showcasing both Dahl’s distinctive voice and the jewels of the…

We are seeking an Assistant Producer to work, for a fixed-term of nine months, alongside Executive Producer Lisa Maguire during the lead-in and delivery of NTW’s 2016 productions. You will work across a number of events, activities and shows. On some small-scale projects you will take the delivery lead, and in others you will work alongside Lisa and the NTW production, communications and collaboration teams to realise more ambitious ideas. You will also provide day-to-day producing support,…

THE INSATIABLE, INFLATABLE CANDYLION

“A long time ago, In the Kingdom of Candy, a lion once roamed the streets...

Howled on the hour, whined on the minute, roared every second day of the year.”

The Emerging Director position is a brilliant opportunity for new directors to spend some time working side by side with more experienced directors. Last year Siwan Llynor supported Louise Ann Wilson on The Gathering/Yr Helfa (have a look at her blog posts here to…

This week I've been making some arrangements for an R&D on Jeton Neziraj's latest play, commissioned by NTW. 

Jeton is visiting us from Prishtina, where he is the director of Qendra Multimedia. His work has been translated and performed in many languages and his varied career includes leading the National Theatre of Kosovo as Artistic Director.

Jeton is working with Kate Wasserberg this week, Artistic Director of The Other Room in…

CASTING BREAKDOWN

THE INSATIABLE INFLATABLE CANDYLION 

National Theatre Wales

A theatre-gig from the creative minds behind the award-winning…

ILIAD

A theatrical staging of Christopher Logue's War Music…

What is Karen?

Karen is a new interactive work by Blast Theory for 2015 developed in partnership with National Theatre Wales. Karen is an…

Karen is a new interactive work by Blast Theory for 2015 developed in partnership with National Theatre Wales.

The project reflects on the uses of big data, behavioural profiling and personalisation. Developed in consultation with Professor Nina Reynolds and Dr Kelly Page, the work starts with a smartphone app in which you interact with Karen. The app will be free. The work culminates in a live event…

National Theatre Wales is casting for its next production, a new play by Robin Soans, to be directed by Max Stafford-Clark in co-production with Out of Joint.

The production will open in Cardiff followed by a Welsh and English tour, culminating in a five week run in London.

Auditions:

In London on 27^th October and in Cardiff on 30^th…

NTW is casting for its next production.

Rehearsals from 20th October in Newport, South Wales.

Previews from 6th November, plays to 22nd November

Venue: site specific.

This production is an immersive experience which takes the form of a fictionally illegal journey across a reimagined border. It also exists online via the surveillance network of the fictional border agency. Part game, part theatre, part situationist documentary, the production is an…

NTW, with Migrations, is looking for an ensemble of five adult performers to join the company for The Gathering / Yr Helfa in Snowdonia this Autumn

Created by Louise Ann- Wilson and written by Gillian Clarke, The Gathering / Yr Helfa is a powerful exploration of the annual cycle of sheep-farming and is the culmination of three years’ observation of life at Hafod Y Llan, a working hill farm on Snowdon.

All performers should be fit, strong, and happy in the…

National Theatre Wales is casting for a new collaboration with Green Man Festival. 

Created by Gerald Tyler, the project will take place from the 4th to the 17th of August 2014, including the performance across the 14th - 17th August, at the Green Man Festival site, Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell.

All performers will need to be physically fit and robust since the festival site is big, uneven and exposed to the elements. Rehearsals will be intensive and on site…

We are delighted to be seeking a freelance Associate Producer to work alongside Lisa during the lead-in and delivery of a forthcoming NTW 2014 Production. It’s a new, immersive piece based in Bristol and Newport, with a online, gaming element.

If you have a proven commitment to a career in imaginative theatre producing then email me with a CV, why you for the role, and any questions:…

Almost exactly a year ago I started falling in love with National Theatre Wales when I began working as Emerging Director on Praxis Makes Perfect. The project was innovative and ambitious; the process was hard work, sometimes a little chaotic but illuminating, inspiring and so much fun.…  my experience on Praxis characterises NTW, for me, and in the last year I’ve been lucky enough to be involved with the company in a few different capacities; from Summercamp on sunny Anglesey, to…

This week, at National Theatre Wales, we met a group of artists from Istanbul and heard the incredible story of the work they’ve made together.

Memet Ali Alabora, Melin Edomwonyl, Meltem Arikan and Pinar Ogun are not a company, as such; they are friends, collaborators and neighbors, in Cardiff as they were in Istanbul.

Last year they made a show; Mi Minor, and within the show they created Pinima,…

Despite sneaking my feet as far under the National Theatre Wales table as possible since coming back to Cardiff this time last year, November’s Stories Of The Streetz was one of the first truly TEAM events I’ve had the chance to get involved with. (as assistant Director to Ryan…

So, WSD2013 is upon us. A celebration of international performance design that will be in and around the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, for the next ten days. But it's not just designers who should be getting excited, anyone who has anything to do with performance will find something new and exciting on the bill, with performances, demonstrations, workshops and lectures from all over the world. Here's my…