Thank you so much to everyone who came to Chapter in Cardiff to make The Forge's inaugural event such a success! 

To all the performers, audience members and participants who showed their work, generously gave feedback and openly received it  - thank you! I hope The Forge was fun, interesting and a useful place to see and develop new work and new practice.

Here's a few photos, all taken by Ashleigh Haddad, to give you a flavour of the night....

Simon Morgan-Thomas' piece, LOVE QUESTION MARK based on the provocation by Robert Gillespie started the night. As Simon explains: "the development of our piece has begun to steer away from Robert’s original play. Robert would much like the audience also to be directed to the original text:

www.janenightwork.com/love-question-mark

Simon performed in his own piece with Amy Griggs (above) and it was directed by Elise Davison.

We had poets!

There were two "intervals" in The Forge and in this time, the audience gave their feedback on cards which I then used to facilitate feedback and discussion between the audience and the artists. 

Thank you, to audience members, artists and participants for being so generous in your feedback - and so generous in your reception of that feedback. Afterall, that's the point of The Forge - to develop the work!

Brendan Purcell andAlan Humphreys performed Robert Hopkins' new play "Cob and Fis". This was a first reading of a play in its very early stages that could be performed on radio. And it was set in Elizabethan times!

Brent Morgan = Bon Vivant (my phrase to describe him, although I couldn't pronounce it)

Brent charmed the audience onto stage...

Then it was time for the front row to get involved.

The Really Different Theatre Company from Bridgend College performed two pieces: the first one was The Wooden Spoon, a time-travelling comedy by Dean Scurlock. The second was Twenty Feet Below, by Rowena Scurlock.

Tin Shed Theatre showed us the first few minutes of their play, Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show! The full work will be toured to Wales in 2013.

There was more audience interaction with Antonio Rimola

Georgina Harris was the bearded lady...

Whilst Justin Cliffe introduced us all to the whole outfit...

Finally, we were very lucky to have a guest appearance from none other than Jeff Goldblum himself!

And that, was that! 

We have an exciting mix of artists, across many different performance mediums, coming together for our next event.

Our next event is at Chapter on Thu 17th January 2013.

If you'd like to develop a performance through The Forge, contact me on here, or email contacttheforge@gmail.com

See you in January!