I’m Dafydd Lansley but you can call me Daf. I’ve been a part of National Youth Theatre of Wales for over three years now and each year offers a new challenge to be faced. This is the first time we have ever remounted a production and on top of that we’re doing it in three days. Weirdly enough, it all came back to us pretty quickly on the first day. The wonders of muscle memory, eh?

We spent two days in the amazing Arad Goch Theatre and now we’re treading familiar ground in the…

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Katie and Naomi here!!

National Youth Theatre Wales Wooooop! And a a little bit of Ouch…. AKA today the bodies are a little bit achy.

So guys we did our first proper run through yesterday, exciting times! We got used to our foot patterns, Trolleys, Props and then added more to our dance sequences. We are just about to go into the theatre to tech the show after only two days! It has been tough but also amazing to be back into this madness.

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Rhys’ Blog – dead born grow

WE ARE BACK!! This is the first time that I’ve ever remounted a show and its proving to be a real challenge…but still very exciting. 7 months since we last performed the piece its interesting how quickly everything comes flooding back…the body does remember (something Frantic assured us of last summer).

We started by recapping and re-remembering the major movement sections of the piece…which was simple enough to do…but finding the detail…

The National Youth Theatre Wales is back on the road again with a re-mount of their co-production with Frantic Assembly.

Tomorrow 12 young creatives, 9 production team staff, 3 welfare staff are heading to Aberystwyth for AGOR DRYSAU-OPENING DOORS,  Wales International Festival of Performing Arts for Young Audiences, organised by Cwmni Theatr Arad Goch.

They will be performing 'dead born grow' a devised piece around the concept of illusion versus reality. This was the…