If you’ve toyed with the idea of seeing Hairspray on stage but doubted whether anyone could top Ricki Lake’s original 1988 portrayal of Tracy – or indeed Nikki Blonsky’s 2007 film version, you really needn’t worry. The new stage version of Hairpray brought to you by producers Mark Goucher, Matthew Gale and Laurence Myers will … Continue reading REVIEW: ‘HAIRSPRAY’ BY GEMMA TREHARNE-FOOSE
Hi Gary great to meet you, can you give our readers some background information on yourself please? I’m a playwright. My family are from Pembrokeshire, I grew up in Bridgend, and I live in Cardiff. Mostly recently I’ve written Iphigenia in Splott for the Sherman Theatre, Violence and Son for the Royal Court, and Killology … Continue reading Top Tunes with Gary Owen
First things first, let’s get one thing clear – I am a steadfast ‘Rent Head’ and after this show – will remain so probably for the rest of my life and I make no apologies for this. That being said, it’s been a whole 19 years since I was wowed (age 17 – yikes) by … Continue reading Review: Rent by Gemma Treharne-Foose
Rachel Pedley-Miller The Director of Get the Chance Guy O’Donnell recently got the chance to chat to Rachel Pedley-Miller, founding director of Avant Cymru. Rachel discussed her career to date, Blue Scar Avants latest work in development, the support she has received from Angela Gould/RCT Theatres and the importance of working with local communities in all … Continue reading An interview with Rachel Pedley-Miller, founding director of Avant Cymru
Pink Mist, Owen Sheer’s highly acclaimed verse-drama, follows three cocksure Bristolian teens as they venture out of their mundane lives and into military, service and manhood. It is a story passed from generation to generation. What is duty and honour? There is a reading below of Laurens review to listen to. When discussing a piece … Continue reading Review Pink Mist Sherman Theatre
Owen Sheers is one of the leading contemporary writers, in Britain, today, a Professor in Creativity at Swansea University, and my immediate go-to subject of conversation when I don’t want to do any work in English lessons. Sheers was the first writer in residence at the Welsh Rugby Union – the first of any national … Continue reading An Interview with Owen Sheers
Criw Celf workshops 2016 Hi Tom – great to meet you, can you give our readers some background information on yourself please? I’m a visual artist mainly working in film and performance. I like to work with people and my projects have included customised football wall charts, an odyssey across Wales, an archive to a lake … Continue reading An interview with Tom Goddard Project Producer at Criw Celf, A2:Connect
Nia Roberts in Love Steals Us From Loneliness, by National Theatre Wales at Hobos Nightclub Bridgend Six years ago I was a mess. I had dropped out of university. Everything I had been working up to in my life so far had fallen apart during the time it takes to read one email. I honestly … Continue reading “Six Years ago I Was a Mess” by Chelsey Gillard
Macbeth – an operatic trip I saw, no, I experienced, no, I what? I tripped. A singing trip through Shakespeare’s tragedy. I have no idea where to start. What words can do justice to this bizarre and jarring production. This crippling tale of the power of suggestion, the excuses of politics. The women. Boy. What … Continue reading Review Macbeth/Merchant of Venice WNO by Helen Joy
Director James Williams was placed, alongside the producers at Arts Active Wales, with the admirable but ultimately unenviable task of threading together a week’s worth of workshops, carried out by young people who had never before met, together into a show worthy of the New Theatre. Despite the insularity that is always a … Continue reading Review Performance at The New Theatre by Lois Arcari
